Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arbitration Advance. The most concrete passage in Scot MacDonald's idealistic speech dealt with the so-called "Optional Clause" of the World Court protocol, signatories to which bind themselves to accept the arbitral jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes. Said Mr. MacDonald: "I am in a position to...
Mr. Barlow took the advice, left for Washington prepared to agitate his claims with redoubled vigor.
Mounting postal deficits have caused President Hoover much anxiety. This year's loss is estimated at $100,000,000. The President instructed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining...
Selling in the U. S. at about 50¢ per gallon, whale oil is used mainly for soap production. Although many whalers bring back only oil, others are prepared to render all the byproducts, used chiefly for fertilizer and cattle meal. Thrifty Japanese treat a whale as thoroughly as they do...
Cyclopropane Anesthetic, a new gas prepared by Philadelphia's G. H. W. Lucas and Toronto's Velyien Ewart Henderson acts similarly to nitrous oxide (laughing gas) but has more satisfactory after effects. Recovery is rapid. The patient does not struggle. Respiration remains normal, the blood pressure almost so.