Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there is a girl in my office answering letters in exactly the language I would use. I snooped one time, and there were the letters just as I would have written them. Who has been giving her that language? There is but one answer...
Another major subject of debate is over the merits of present military equipment. Although the French have publicly claimed that Germany lacks artillery, most professionals believe that the Nazis, who started from scratch in 1933, have an edge in modern guns, superior to hoary French models. The Germans use a new 105 mm. howitzer while the French rock along with antiquated Seventy-fives. Some professionals also contend that French rifles are out-of-date, "tall as the Eiffel Tower," hence difficult to conceal, whereas the Germans use a short carbine that snuggles neatly into shallow trenches and shell holes; that...
...respectable wholesale drug house of John Wyeth & Bro., Inc. stumbled Fred Barrick last month. Waving an official Government order blank signed by Dr. Anders, he demanded 500 half-grain tablets of morphine sulphate, enough to choke a team of horses. Since Government order blanks are for the personal use of physicians who purchase narcotics wholesale for office use, the druggists promptly called the narcotic squad...
...great extent the Y. M. C. A. still suffers, in the popular mind, from the reputation it acquired during the World War, when soldiers welcomed the use of its huts but resented the attentions of its gladhanding, often sanctimonious secretaries. Latterly the Y. M. C. A. in the U. S., with its $212,000,000 in property and endowment and its $48,000,000 income, has been accused-because its high command eschews politico-economic controversy-of being socially laggard, of being a closed corporation in which working secretaries tend to become older and older. Nevertheless...
...hopelessly obsolescent engines, although new freight engines would work 75-125,000 miles a year instead of 30-40,000 miles as the old ones do, would bring operating savings great enough to pay for themselves in a few years. Particularly true is this of Diesel switchers (which use fuel only when actually switching, do not puff while waiting). Diesel switchers are said to pay for themselves in two years, but only a fraction of U. S. switchers are Diesels...