Word: replenishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where is France to get gold? Economists say that the fall of the franc was caused by the depletion of the gold reserves in the Bank of France. If France has no gold, she must depend on trade to replenish her stock. To rebuild her industry and commerce, France must have time; but time is the one thing American policy cannot grant her if there is to be immediate tax reduction it home...
...dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they play with the 1,000,000 peso "Independence Fund" voted annually by the legislature, from which they replenish their pockets without rendering account. This year for Christmas they thought they would dramatize independence in a new yuletide comedy for their electorate. So they gathered their best minds together and with pen, ink and paper indicted a letter to the League of Nations' International Labor Bureau. They asked...
Twenty-five dollars a pint is the market price for fresh, clean human blood, which is sold by physicians and surgeons and used to replenish the blood supply of patients who have lost a good deal of the fluid during operations or through sickness. A human being can safely spare a pint out of the eight quarts of blood in his body once in six months, according to the doctor in charge at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Some men have been known to supply as much as two quarts during the six month period, but the doctor did not recommend...
...yards closer because the Fort Randolph batteries were silenced. It was decided that the damage done by the bombardment was not serious and could be repaired during the night. During the afternoon the first Blue battleship, the California, reached the Atlantic. Meanwhile the Black Fleet retired to Porto Bello replenish its ammunition...
...answer to Judge Gary's plea for letting down the immigration bars. He announced that he had 1,000 Mexican laborers at work in his plants, that they were efficient and reliable, and that since there was no restriction on Mexican immigration, the steel industry could replenish its labor shortage with Mexican labor without seriously disturbing economic and labor conditions in the steel towns. It is expected that many employers of common labor will take advantage of the fact that Mexican labor has no legal quota limit, and recruit their desired labor south of the Rio Grande...