Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parties to the Treaty guarantee "Freedom of the Seas" to belligerents as well as neutrals in time of war; 4) The division of cruisers into gun categories is only a "temporary expedient" which would not bind the U. S. at future conferences; 5) The 10-6 naval ratio between the U. S. and Japan should be restored and perpetuated; 6) New building under the "escalator" clause would not be confined to a duplication of another power's ships; 7) Violation by any power of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Treaty would void the Naval Treaty and subject the violator...
Long had the President recommended such unification of nationwide veterans' welfare activities. High were his hopes that one office force, one chief, would reduce the costly prevailing ratio of salaries to huge disbursements. Under the new pension laws, the Veterans' Administration will deal with about $800,000,000, far more than any other U. S. department, $1 out of every $5 spent by the Government...
...attention (and public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...
...France, sends the largest numbers to America. Canada sends 1200 of the 1700 students from Anglo-Saxon lands. China is the great donor of Eastern students, and sends about 1250 of them to this country every year. The figures from China have varied very little while the changes in ratio were taking place in the other nations...
...Cruft Laboratory, among the numerous researches that have been under way, Miss Charlotte T. Perry, graduate student in Radcliffe College, and Professor E. L. Chaffee have completed a research on the absolute determination of the ratio of the charge of an electron to its mass. This research makes use of a direct measurement of the time required for an electron to move from one point to another under the action of a high-voltage field. The electric field was obtained by the use of the 100,000-volt storage battery belonging to the laboratory and the timing of the electron...