Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persistently neutral, did not agree with Mr. Watson's definition of a "straight shooter." Mr. Watson left the Treasury promising to war on the Administration from then until June if Mr. Mills was allowed to help Hooverize Indiana. It was not reported that Mr. Mills would change his plan...
...nucleus of the bill was still the Army engineers' plan for bigger and better levees along the main stream of the Mississippi from Cairo, 111., down, and spillways at the foot of the river. The Army figure for this work was $295,000,000. The Senate's elaborations raised the figure to $325,000,000 nominally. The actual cost entailed was estimated as high as $1,500,000,000. It was to pare down and fix the Senate's elaborations that President Coolidge's men fought during the House debates. This fight centred on two points...
Snapped crippled Philip Snowden, onetime Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer: ''This plan to abolish all taxes on hundreds of thousands of acres of land ... is perfectly outrageous. ... A monstrosity! . . . The landlords are to be put still further on the dole. . . . Scandalous ! . . ." And Cripple Snowden thumped the floor with his two rubber-tipped canes...
...generations. Biologist Muller tried the effect of other agents on the germ plasm. Treatment with lead, arsenic, poisons which were known to change cells had no effect. X-rays and cosmic rays are the only forces in nature that can shake up the germ cells, changing their original plan of development, making the changes hereditary in many cases. X-rays and cosmic rays exist everywhere. They may, thinks Dr. Muller, be responsible for all changes in the evolutionary tree...
...painful situation required thought. The clerks thought, and their thoughts rose like thin spirals of incense through the executive organization of the Happiness Candy Stores, to the executive organization of the United Cigar Stores, which operates the Happiness chain. And last week the plan took form, which made the diligent store clerks rejoice...