Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine men each (including anesthetists and nurses), can handle 120 serious surgical cases in ten hours...
...immediate crisis that Mr. Harrison and his committee had to face was not in stocks but in U. S. Government bonds. Inflation-minded investors who wished to shift to stocks unloaded Governments. Both for the sake of the Treasury and of U. S. member banks, 70% of whose investments are in direct and guaranteed Government obligations, the market could not be allowed to slide...
Argentina suddenly changed its trade system to one of import control, freezing foreign exports to Argentina at 1934-36 levels, then setting import quotas. With this Argentina shift toward multilateral trade, Sumner Welles in Washington and Minister Lamas in Buenos Aires could announce with good grace a proposed trade agreement...
...year) from its management firm (Ebasco Services, Inc.), which began servicing the system's operating units at cost. Next, Groesbeck pulled out of the TVA fight, selling four operating companies to Government competitors, leaving Willkie (of whose Commonwealth & Southern system Bond& Share is a 5% owner) to shift for himself, taking a loss of $2,433,209 on the deal. Finally, Groesbeck submitted to SEChairman Douglas a scheme for integrating his multi-regioned system which sprawls across 33 States, embraces 119 companies, and looks as hard to hook into one chain as the Appalachians and the Rockies...
...Senate voted to save these island industries from extinction at least until the Independence year of 1946. As an original sponsor of Philippine Independence, Maryland's unpurged Millard Tydings had talked it over with Franklin Roosevelt, agreed with him that the islands could not stand too sudden a shift from free trade with...