Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modernize our obsolete vessels; but the upstart Coast Guard service was granted $20 million for Prohibition enforcement by the last Congress. We pare our requests to the bone and you cut 16% more. And the President also forbids the elevation of guns. We will sink to a third-rate power instead of standing with a first-rate navy as the naval treaties entitle...
...publicity tom-toms should begin to beat, summoning U. S. investors to the lottery in European stocks and bonds. Many prize numbers will doubtless be drawn, also some utterly blank pieces of paper. The beginning of this interesting process, along with our own Presidential election, should at any rate lend entertainment to an Autumn whose business prospects are still thoroughly uncertain...
...many years physicians have been interested in the rate of progress of food residues in their passage through the body. In making tests, patients have been required to swallow insoluble matter, such as small pieces of metal and charcoal or dye substances, which could be easily detected in the excretion. When the X-ray was discovered, barium sulphate, which is opaque to the Xray, was given, and the passage of the barium was observed through the fluoroscope. The giving of a large amount of indigestible material like barium with a small amount of milk or gruel, however, brings about conditions...
...conclusions from this work are that wide variations in the rate of passage of food through the body are perfectly compatible with good health. All of the persons tested seemed to be normal on examination; and none of them admitted having poor digestion or poor health. Nevertheless, the rate of the movement of food varied greatly from very slow to very fast in the group of persons studied. The studies seemed to show also that the giving of purgative drugs, or that spontaneous, repeated emptying of the bowels results in such thorough emptying that no further excretions should be expected...
...anxiety of the British over the future price of breadstuffs is aggravated by the fact that already there are over 1,000,000 unemployed, and that exports stand a third below the pre-War rate. Some hunger may be felt in Great Britain as a result...