Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories of the Lima Declaration meet at Panama City late this month to work together on neutrality measures...
...line operating shacks. Tetanus, great killer in all previous wars, was practically eliminated by routine injections of anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine men each (including...
...refugees aboard, had been torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. In the dead of night, as the news reached London, correspondents, scenting the biggest German "atrocity" story since the sinking of the Lusitania, had descended on cable companies, roused up nodding operators to file their dispatches. It was now late afternoon, and the message in Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall's hand (from his home office) read...
...payments of $756,700 within 30 and 60 days respectively; $4,542,000 payable by Aug. 31, 1942; $1,362,500 payable by Aug. 31, 1943. All deferred payments were guaranteed by the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., New York City, with interest at 4%. To President Henry-whose late client Jacob Sloat Fassett (onetime Congressman and Republican leader of New York's Senate) was a backer of Promoter Hunt -this deal seemed fair enough. It looked timely to most of Oriental Consolidated's 829 stockholders (350 English, 224 American, 149 French, 106 scattered). On the London Stock Exchange...
...cleared through London, this meant the imposition of British censorship over nearly all war news. As the censorship began to delay dispatches, the Associated Press and United Press ordered their correspondents on the Continent to file their stories directly to New York, but even then they were hours late. By the fourth day of the war virtually nothing was known of its military progress, and it looked as if this might be not only the worst but the worst-covered war in recent history...