Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be interesting to note that San Diego was the pioneer city of the west coast in inaugurating and carrying out an intensive community advertising campaign. San Diego, since her first campaign, has spent approximately $150,000.00 annually on community advertising, with the result that her population has increased over 100% with a corresponding increase in industrial development and realty values...
...Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what he is talking about. Said he, without giving any date: ". . . We now have a responsible forecast of a superflood, greater even than the 1927 flood. This is the result of investigations made by the United States Weather Bureau...
Speechmaking in Indianapolis, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy tried valiantly to minimize the figures (he quoted only $740,000,000) and to magnify their necessity to the country. He rehearsed the history of U. S. Navy-building since the War, showing how, as the result of waiting hope fully for cruiser limitation as well as capital ship limitation, the U. S. had fallen far short of the parity agreed to with Britain at Washington in 1922, and would fall farther short if replacements were not soon authorized. He showed how auxiliaries, which are all that the new program called...
British correspondents cabled that the beings bombed were "only animals." Cows had been mangled in humane preference to mangling their tribesmen owners. Reason : some of the tribesmen were suspected of murdering recently British District Commander Captain Ferguson. Result: 34 chiefs of the Lau tribe surrendered, last week, to a small British land force. The chiefs, cowed, were then obliged to watch while British bombers completely demolished their sacred shrine, the Pyramid of Dengkur, long a place of idolatrous, witch-doctoring worship...
...star hurdler of the Dartmouth track team, will probably not be able to compete in the Triangular track meet between Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell in the Arena Saturday night. Wells is at present in the hospital suffering from an injury to his instep which he received as a result of a fall in the New York Athletic Club Games Monday evening. Hot compresses are being constantly applied in an effort to reduce the swelling, which persists despite all treatment...