Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georges Clemenceau, "Tiger" War Premier of France: "He told me he was going to get rid of Joffre, who was too old and too slow and who had taken no precautions to safeguard Verdun...
Premier Raymond Poincarè, who also functions as Finance Minister, issued a statement to the effect that he was "working upon a solution of the question." The great difficulty involved is 1) to get the Chamber and Senate to approve the Mellon-Berenger accord without a safeguarding clause (entitling France to stop payments to her creditors should Germany cease her reparation payments) or 2) to get Washington to accept the proposed safeguard clause...
Fuel Acids. Chemist H. C. Mougy of the General Motors research staff pointed out that the U. S. oil industry could save 50 millions per annum in refining costs if motor designers could safeguard motors against fuels containing a higher percentage of sulphur than is now left in good grade gasoline. Motor designers aim to protect motors from sulphuric acid corrosion by eliminating condensation of the water vapor from burning fuel...
...German Government will take the normal precautions that are necessary in its own interest to safeguard the budget, there is no reason to believe from developments thus far that it will find real difficulty in maintaining the necessary balance between its revenues and expenditures, including, of course payments under the Dawes plan...
...prospect viewed in the light of the present system of endowed education is decidedly gloomy. But whether or not Mr. Rockefeller has accurately forecast the trend in the relationship between wealth and education, the problem remains one for the educators to solve both as a safeguard against such a situation and as an extreme important problem in itself...