Word: three
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservation. "Three important questions. . . . Conservation of our oil and gas resources . . . conservation due to overgrazing on public lands . . . our reclamation policy, ... I have appointed a commission...
...ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return for $30,000,000 worth of mail contracts. U. S. Lines officials complained that this was too large an investment for the mail subsidies offered...
...long time since trust-busting was a front-page activity of the U. S. Government. Last week, however, three potent U. S. corporations found themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...
...orange. Cool and strain. Add the juice of four limes or one-fourth cupful of bottled lime juice. Dilute with one pint of iced plain or charged water." Mint Julep-"Five lemons, one bunch fresh mint, one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup water, three bottles of ginger ale. Combine ingredients except ginger ale and let stand one half hour: add ginger ale and pour over ice; serve in small glasses...
Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...