Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government could save money, Old Takahashi pleaded with the fighting services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese common stocks of even the most popular munitions companies...
...spare the organ. But Dr. Carrel's plans of keeping whole hearts, kidneys, ovaries and other organs alive artificially were at a standstill in 1928 when Mechanic Lindbergh became his assistant. The technique was known and the nutrient fluids were at hand. But still lacking was a germ-proof device to pump the fluids through the organs...
...billion, six hundred million gallons of 199 proof anhydrous alcohol would be needed to make a 10% blend with the approximate 16,000,000,000 annual U. S. gasoline consumption. That this would relieve the problem of the agricultural surplus is indicated by the fact that to make it would consume all of the wheat raised in the U. S.; or on the other hand all of the oats, barley, rye and white potatoes; or on the other hand from one-third to one-half of the corn...
...more negotiations Professor Bongiorno's draft was turned over to Translator Livingston, and five years later a faithful translation of the text, of the footnotes that made up a third of the entire work of 2,033 pages, was completed. More than a year was required for reading proof, checking references, making the 100-page index...
...much bigger explaining job for Dr. Morgan and friends was an official TVA audit prepared by the one man who has power to pry into all the books and accounts of every New Deal agency- Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. His job is as nearly politics-proof as can be, for only Congress can remove him during his 15-year term and he is not eligible for reappointment.* And it was a notable show of independence for Mr. McCarl to be critical of TVA, for the soft-spoken Comptroller General with his flowing Windsor tie was once secretary, close friend...