Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be enough to destroy all life in those cities." Chemical officers jumped on this statement as utter nonsense. Author Prentiss points out that to lay down any sort of effective (not lethal) contamination it would be necessary to deposit 10 Ib. of vesicant liquid on every 100 sq. yd...
...imports of Japanese cotton goods in 1933 were only 1,115,713 yd. In 1934 they were 16,000,000 yd. In 1933 they were 36,000,000 yd. and in 1936, 75,000,000 yd. Compared to the total volume of Japanese exports, 2,725,109,000 yd. in 1935, this tidy increase was negligible. It was also negligible compared to the total annual U. S. production of about 7,000,000,000 yd. But underlying these figures were two facts which gave U. S. mill owners cause for uneasiness. The first was that Japanese exports...
...Rockies. . . . Yet it was a nation engaged in the promotion of trade liberalization. . . . We did not know at this time that, within a few days, we would be informed that the Japanese bookings of American business for 1937 had reached a sum total of more than 150,000,000 yd. by the time the year was three weeks old. It is not unreasonable to suppose, on the basis of the most conservative possible estimate, that the 1937 Japanese imports to the United States might have reached the colossal figure of 500,000,000 yd. had nothing been done...
...done with Occidental rapidity in less than ten days. Between entertainments of feudal courtesy and visits to the great clean mills of Osaka, they persuaded the Japanese textile barons to call an immediate halt on U. S. business, establishing as the quota for this year just 155,000,000 yd. of cotton piece goods, exactly the amount of business booked for U. S. delivery three days preceding the agreement. The surprisingly tractable Japanese further agreed that the situation in 1937 was abnormal, accepted a quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with the option of transferring not more than...
...annual Nile flood, on which Egypt's fertility depends, comes in summer, when rivers normally shrink. From June to September the Nile rises 13 to 14 ells (1 ell = 7/10 yd.) in Upper Egypt, 7 to 8 ells in the Delta. Value of the flood is twofold: water for irrigation, silt for crops. Fertilizing value of the Nile's silt has been assessed at $7.50 an acre. Seventy percent of Egypt's cultivated land yields double or treble harvests; in some places there are seven harvests in 15 months. Could Mussolini starve Egypt by damming Lake Tana...