Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst's manager, William Ferris, spent a month in Mexico City, negotiating with the Government, and left abruptly. On Mr. Hearst's visit to Mexico, he appealed to the American authorities to prevent new taxes on his 1,000,000-acre ranch, extending through the three states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas. Taxation was levied on the Vera Cruz portion alone...
Provisions are being made, particularly in the California fields, to store surplus crude oil, and by avoiding an abnormal increase in refining to prevent prices of gasoline and other products from break- ing to dangerous low levels. Some 30 Mid-Western refineries, including the Marland Refining Company's stills at Ponca City, Okla., are re- ported as closed during August. The principal exception to this general policy has been the Sinclair Co., which has recently opened its expanded refineries at Coffeyville, Kans...
...political situation in Germany continues to be fraught with peril. A putsch, not dissimilar from the Kapp Putsch of 1920, is an imminent possibility. The object of such a movement would be primarily to prevent the country falling into the hands of Communists, who have been engineering a plot to seize the Government for some time. If the coup d'état were successful, a Fascist dictatorship would be established, followed, no doubt, by the reëstablishment of the Monarchy...
House of Lords. Viscount Astor, in moving the second reading of his wife's bill to prevent the sale of intoxicants to persons under the age of 18 years, gave Lord Dawson, King's Physician, an opportunity of eulogizing Bacchus. He said that alcohol, if taken in moderation, added to " the pleasure, exhilaration, happiness and gayety of life." For the practical purposes of the bill he said that alcohol was not necessary to youth, as experience showed that it was at the tender ages damaging to the nervous system...
...blood saved the lives of two patients at the New Haven Hospital, suffering from internal hemorrhage. One was an obstetrical case, the other a man with a liver punctured in an automobile accident. Blood was drawn off from the sites of the hemorrhages, filtered and reinjected, with citrate to prevent coagulation, in the veins of the arm. The operation is rare...