Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigations of the sugar scandal are proceeding slowly and will not be able to publish their findings and punish the guilty until after the bull market has reaped enormous profits for the speculators. It is a case of locking the stable door too late, but it may serve to prevent similar gouges in the future...
...interested nations; that the Governments declare their desire for immutable peace and against armed peace; that they adhere to the Washington naval treaties, fixing the tonnage of capital ships and establishing immunity for neutral merchant ships from submarine attack; that they adhere to the various international conventions tending to prevent and humanize...
...increase the mileage of freight cars to an average of 30 miles a day?if necessary by the use of embargoes to prevent congestion...
...introduction of a small quantity of a newly developed "sneeze gas " into illuminating gas will, to a great extent, prevent deaths by asphyxiation. It has not yet been manufactured commercially...
...Tests made during the recent influenza epidemic on 300 students and faculty members of the University of Arkansas indicate that air containing minute quantities of chlorine breathed for five minutes a day tends to prevent the development of the flu. The case rate in the entire University population was 133 per 1,000, while in those taking the treatment it was 44 per 1,000. Eliminating those who were already ill or who did not complete the treatment, it was only 13 per 1,000, or one-tenth of the rate among those not " gassed." The experiments were conducted...