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...Authoritative reports are reaching this Government of the use by Japanese armed forces in various localities of China of poisonous or noxious gases. I desire to make it unmistakably clear that, if Japan persists in this inhuman form of warfare against China, or against any other of the United Nations, such action will be regarded by this Government as though taken against the United States, and retaliation in kind and in full measure will be meted out. We shall be prepared to enforce complete retribution. Upon Japan will rest the responsibility...
Those British mine workers who are paid by the amount of coal dug often cannot earn county minimum wages while working bad seams. With the war, thousands of Britain's 700,000 coal miners have left their noxious slums and dismal wages for better-paying defense jobs or the fighting services (the draft and volunteer rate has been 25,000 a year). Among those who remain, strikes have been constant, the Mineworkers' Federation (union) demanding a national minimum weekly wage of $17, an average increase...
...years a mere laboratory curiosity, is now being produced on an industrial scale and used widely. Du Pont Chemists Martin Eli Cupery and Wallace Emerson Gordon announced that the sulfamates are excellent flameproofing agents for paper and fabric. Ammonium sulfamate sprays will kill ragweed, poison ivy and other noxious plants...
...noxious duty Mr. Lawes will escape is witnessing the execution of two prisoners whose attempted escape last April was the first violent outbreak at Sing Sing since 1920. Required by law to witness executions, but a lifelong enemy of capital punishment, the Warden always turned his head, bowed it at the last moment...
...taught in apparent ignorance, or at least disregard, of the other. Some overlapping is inevitable where subject matters are related; but greater care in administrative coordination could well reduce the abundant duplication of material in Ec 41, 43, and 45, without destroying the unity of each. Even more noxious is the overlapping of lectures within one and the same course, which is quite current in 41, and not unknown in 45 and 61. Closer collaboration between the different lecturers in each course would readily cure the evil...