Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics. In the normal course of events it was expected that this plan would have aroused the antagonism of Pacifist organizations, but since these are generally rather severely in the minority, no great to-do was anticipated. The Pacifist protest came. President Coolidge answered it, and ordinarily that would have closed the incident...
...Premier Antonio Mauro declared that the Spanish Government is in the hands of a "notorious military officers' committee" which controls the Directory headed by Primo. He said that the present régime has done nothing to restore normal conditions in Spain or to favor the restoration of an elected government...
...simple as this is in principle, the method is complicated in procedure by many difficulties: 1) What is to be put back into the body to take the place of the missing blood? A salt solution properly proportioned−the "normal saline solution" frequently injected after hemorrhages−can act as substitute for a considerable quantity of blood. A balanced amount of this is contained in the tube of the artificial kidney so that the blood, entering, pushes the solution ahead of it into the vein at the receiving end. 2) How is the blood to be cleansed without...
Nevertheless, the present high prices are a huge incentive in the attempt to overcome these difficulties of producing cotton abroad. Unless the American planter can overcome the ravages of the boll weevil, increase production and thus lower prices to something nearer a normal level, he will in a few years begin to encounter stiffer foreign competition than ever before in cotton production...
...April, and exceeds the supply until about July 4. But consumers do not eat bananas in sleet storms and cold weather. This year the banana dealers' yellow bunches dangled under their canvas awnings in vain. Importation into New York by one large company is only about half of normal, while prices on a bunch are down from an average of $4.50 to $3.00. The perplexities of the banana dealers have recently attracted the attention of high finance through the decline of Cuyamel Fruit Co. stock on the ticker tape, amounting to almost 20 points. In addition to the weather...