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...adequate for several hundred years; 2) that the U. S. could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably in oxygen tents); 3) that for the 17,900,000 cu. ft. Germany will receive in 1938 there will be a formal quid pro quo-two naval observers will ride on each German Zeppelin using the gas, thus get valuable training in lighter-than-air navigation which the U. S., with all its big dirigibles wrecked or grounded, no longer provides...
...society almost totally governed by the law of the quid pro quo, it is gratifying to see men going out of their way to serve the public interest without hope of reward. It has meant a great deal of work on the part of Dr. McKhann and the other doctors whom he has persuaded to speak. It is not easy for a specialist to make himself clear to a lay audience, let alone make himself popular. It has called for laborious preparation as well as the sacrifice of a Sunday afternoon. Yet the success of the series is obvious from...
...Quid Pro Quo? From coast to coast Labor and Industry perused the text to see whether great General Motors Corp. or the militant C. I. 0. of Mr. Lewis had taken a licking...
...such butchery as had already wiped out, in both White and Red territory, some 120,000 innocent non-combatants in Spain's savage, stalemated civil war (TIME, July 27 et seq.). A quiet little deal was arranged by General Miaja through intermediaries with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Of the quid pro quo only half was disclosed. What Franco got was not revealed, though he was rumored to have bought the lives of several prominent Whites; but what General Miaja got was his great big bouncing family: Mother Miaja, Daughters Pepita, Concha, Luisa and Teresa, and Son Emilio...
Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads...