Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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So What? If Pearl Harbor was worse than some of the "wild rumors" that had been circulating in the U.S. for a year, it was certainly worse than the Japanese imagined. At first the Jap communiques claimed the destruction of only two battleships, damage to four others and to four...
Publisher Elias Manchester Boddy of the Los Angeles Daily News gazes at no crystal and reads no stars. But when the National Recovery Act went into effect in 1933, Boddy wrote: "It will eventually be thrown out." When the Wagner Act was passed, he said: "Labor regards [it] as a...
Treatment of burns has long been a controversial medical problem. Few doctors are really satisfied with present methods (tannic acid, aniline dyes, etc.). Burns are always a major problem in naval warfare. Sailors work within enclosed areas where they are exposed to bomb flashes and hot oil. Of Naval casualties...
Big advantage of the new technique, which was developed during the last three years by Rockefeller Foundation scientists in India, is its cheapness. Cost runs about 8? per person per season, whereas "permanent" malaria-control measures-draining marshes, filling ponds, etc.-would cost about $1.50 per person per season. And...
The British Foreign Office was in a tizzy. Well it knew that, whereas Germany and most of her enemies are bound by the Geneva Convention to treat their prisoners according to certain rules, Russia's nonadherence to the Convention leaves both Germany and Russia free to treat Russian and...