Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual income coming from her eastern lands, trusts little in "good will and united effort" to safeguard them. Recently she saw to it that the native garrisons were increased, that a new 8,000-ton cruiser was laid down for service in the Far East and that the number of formidable Dornier flying boats in The Netherlands Indies Naval Air Service was increased to 42. And last month when the U. S. Department of State reported on U. S. shipments of war materials to foreign nations, the biggest shipments, $4,060,073 in June, proved to be to The Netherlands...
...Cardenas was baiting Secretary Hull. Mr. Hull had laid down in diplomatic terms that it is a violation of international law for Mexico to expropriate without immediate compensation. General Cardenas laid down in non-diplomatic terms that what Mexico has done is "for the greatest good of the greatest number of people," and said that in international law there is no such principle as was cited by the U. S. note.* The request of Mr. Hull that Mexico at least make no further seizures of property, pending arbitration, was rejected by President Cardenas and he further rejected the "principle...
Popular adult education has a curious affinity for numbers. Charles William Eliot struck the public fancy with his "five-foot shelf," Emanuel Haldeman-Julius makes hay with "five-cent" pamphlets, many have sold "15 easy lessons." Since last March the newest of these enterprises, the National Educational Alliance, has been offering as a short cut to learning 57 courses at 1? a lesson. By last week it had a good round number to boast about -250,000 students...
...Zurich already has a four-story, subterranean retreat into which officials can dive at a moment's notice. To avoid confusion as to what is the right way to number the floors' of a building underground, each floor has been given, not a number, but a color. The shelter has a 1,000-gallon water supply, a phonograph "well-stocked with records of comforting melodies...
...sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost, and the number of competitors continued to increase...