Word: partially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany? Do you know that Adolf Hitler is now our best-educated man because, although he never went to university, he calls our best German professors to lecture to him several times a week?" Italy has slashed her railway and hotel rates so deeply for tourists that they are partial gifts. Last week, with King Edward and the British Prime Minister both canceling their scheduled vacation trips to France (see p. 21), the Chamber of Deputies in Paris was in a mood to hear what is the matter with France as a tourists' paradise. Primed to tell them with...
...swords. When gunpowder came into use, sailors tried to break the columns by shooting cannon. The spouts are chiefly vapor but may contain fresh water condensed from the cloud or salt water sucked up from the sea. Like tornadoes they are atmospheric vortices caught by conflicting air currents, with partial vacuums at their cores. In general, however, they are much less violent than the average tornado, do damage only by dropping their loads of water. If a land tornado passed out to sea, it would become a waterspout, but the water sucked up into the column would nullify...
...that it keeps fresh much longer than usual. Instead of a paper cap in the bottle's mouth, a tight metal cap with gasket is used. Just before the cap is thrust home, live steam is introduced beneath it. This condenses in the bottle top, creating a partial vacuum. Packed in this way the milk keeps fresh for 48 hours at room temperature, six weeks in a refrigerator...
Meanwhile last week Premier Blum staked his Government's prestige on an appeal to the French small-Capitalist class to buy up a huge "baby bond" issue, broken into shares as low as $6.60 apiece. For the occasion the Bank of France, threatened with partial nationalization, lowered the discount rate to 3% and announced that gold reserves were up, the flight of gold from France ended...
...statisticians had not got around to a breakdown of salaries by industries, had made only a partial one in the matter of taxation. Oil companies' taxes amounted to 120% of payrolls, 25% of sales, 676% of dividends. Next came public utilities with taxes equal to 59% of payrolls, 16% of sales, 90% of dividends. Urged NAM: "Let the American people turn the same spotlight of public attention on taxes that has been turned on executive salaries...