Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hissed and booed by a Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...
...women from 44 different countries. 9) League of Nations-traveling expenses of 128 health officers from 58 nations studying away from home; aid to League's information service on communicable diseases. 10) Surveys-of health conditions, medical education, nursing, biology, anthropology in 34 countries. 11) Experts-staff members loaned for instruction in foreign countries...
...further discussion the French advanced the theory that "peacetime effectives" should not include warships, except those officially rated as "in service." Under this clause the largest navy in the world might be built and a complete "naval reservist" staff trained to man it-all ships being carefully kept "out of service." Upon the declaration of war, the running up of a few naval flags would put the fleet "in service" with a vengeance...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...last April showed their assets to be $742,913,568, surplus $622,366,893 (TIME, April 19). For a fortnight statisticians wiggled estimates and surmises around these figures, guessed variously at Ford profits. The best guess was that he made from $45 to $55 a car. Ford and his staff kept silent...