Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither note did Mr. Hull mention President Cardenas' far larger expropriations of foreign-owned oil properties. These seizures, resulting in grave loss of markets and taxes, have undermined Mexico's national currency to a cracking point (TIME, Aug. 29). The Hull-Welles stratagem of confining their claims to "small" U. S. interests was adopted partly to avoid charges of Imperialism, also partly to give Señior Cardenas a graceful out. But Mexico's President has no easy out. In Mexico's economic crisis he needs U. S: comfort and support. He also needs the powerful...
...unusual thing. Finding that she was unable, because of neuritis, to take part in the U. S. championship next week, Mrs. Moody sent the U. S. L. T. A. a check for $1,309.45, a refund in toto for her expenses abroad-apparently as indemnity for its loss of her as a box-office attraction at Forest Hills. Bewildered by such a Simon-pure amateur spirit, the U. S. L. T. A. decided to take it up as new business at their next meeting...
Treatment is not standardized, varies according to the symptoms. For loss of appetite, Vitamin B may be prescribed; for rheumatic pains, artificial fever. Injection of typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine often stimulates the human body to produce antibodies which fight the disease. Recently, sulfanilamide has also proved of value...
...known as: 1) an unusually alert foreign correspondent with vaguely radical leanings; 2) the wife of Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis. Guided by her most passionate emotion-a consuming hatred of Hitler-Columnist Thompson began writing with shrill assurance that startled readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with more than 7,000,000 readers. She is in constant demand as a radio and platform speaker...
...cases. Last week the industry failed to accept Director Brock's plan for limiting the pack of this year's 250,000-ton crop. This meant that the whole crop would be dumped on the market, threatened growers with a $4,500,000 loss as prices cracked. Homer Cummings agreed to investigate...