Word: present
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thermos boxes. Their quarters are provided with elaborate drainage systems. Where bullets and bully-beef were their essentials last time, now they depend essentially on petrol and motors. Where being decorative was Guardsmen's principal peacetime duty, being efficient and ready if not actually deadly was their present concern...
...priceless asset the House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under five bourgeois and uniformly popular kings: Karl XIV, his only son Oscar I, his eldest son Karl XV who left no male heir, and his brother Oscar II, father of the present Gustaf...
...dust has not been panning out the way it should have. As a "considerable over-estimate," the Frenchmen thought the Soviet might have in ready gold 21,000,000 ounces ($760,000,000)-only four times as much as the U. S. produces in a single year; at present less than one-twentieth of the total U. S. reserve. But as European gold reserves go, 21,000,000 ounces is sizable...
...price of milk is set by the cost of home delivery. If home delivery were eliminated milk could be retailed in stores at 2? to 4? less than at present. Milk at 9? or 10? a quart would be possible, and at this price consumption would increase, much to farmers' profit, for the dairies pay most for milk that is sold in fluid form (i.e., not manufactured into butter, cheese, etc.). FORTUNE explains the conspiracy of circumstances which has prevented this simple solution, has continued to keep the price of fluid milk at uneconomic levels...
...Latest theory of the complicated workings of allergic reaction: An allergen enters the bloodstream. If there are specific antibodies already present in the blood, the allergen is "conquered" and no symptoms result. But if the body is taken unawares, and antibodies are resting in tissue cells, a terrific battle follows. The offending allergen may be "neutralized," but only with great damage to tissue cells. As the cells are torn, large quantities of the chemical histamine escape into the bloodstream, cause "certain organic reactions ... in the walls of the blood vessels and in the smooth muscles...