Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretariat, which approvingly referred to Columnist Walter Lippmann: "Congress should authorize the fortification of Guam, and then the State Department should invite the Japanese to discuss the question." (A U. S. threat to fortify Guam helped to win Japan's agreement to the 5-5-3 naval ratio and the stipulation against further fortifications in the Pacific which were embodied in the Washington Treaty...
Doctors were amazed to find that Mrs. Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...
...whose existence has never been experimentally demonstrated cropped up in the lucubrations of theorists: the negative proton and the neutrino. Some of these little entities were charged with positive electricity, some with negative; some were electrically neutral or inert. Some were "heavy" or massive in relation to others-the ratio being about that of a ton to a pound. The physicists wound up. for the time being, with a nicely balanced table of discovered and hypothetical basic particles of matter, as follows...
...last week measured himself as a man of power. Said he: "My strength is only the strength of the multitude when the multitude gives me a grant of authority to represent it, but when they send their grant of authority, then my strength is multiplied and multiplied in progressive ratio, and it becomes a strength to be reckoned with in the realm of affairs in our democracy." Man of Politics. Labor's multiplied power man has let it be known that the strength of himself and multitude remains at the service of Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal...
Last week, with a $14,000,000 backlog of unfilled orders and enough new contracts in sight to keep his plant running full blast through 1940, Glenn Martin decided he needed more money for working capital and expansion. He will offer to stockholders in the ratio of one new share for each six now held 156,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. common at $20 a share (last week's market price: $33). It will be the first new financing by an important aviation company since Boeing raised $3,789,600 in June 1937. Rearmament-conscious Wall Street...