Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself in knots to prove that we are still on the gold standard, even though dollar bills cannot now be redeemed at the Treasury. He and President Roosevelt may refuse to expand the scrip issue unless secured by bank paper, thus leaving the money-circulation at a near-zero rate. If they take this attitude, and it is all too likely that they will, business activity will falter, slow down, and come increasingly to a dead stop. The logs are in a jam on the river; tinkering with them has failed; dynamite is the only resort left to us. Dynamite...
Padded Uniforms, The sturdy North Chinese soldier fights (hyperbolic Mr. Lo notwithstanding) neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally...
...northern spearhead marched Japan's Sixth Infantry (from her balmy, almost tropical island of Kyushu). Wearing mittens, shawls and everything they could put or tie on, the tropical Sixth rushed at 12° below zero upon Chinese who shot first from behind the rocks of rolling foothills, then from behind the crags of higher and higher mountains as they fell back upon Chihfeng...
...strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking in the atmosphere's moisture; a vacuum box was taking its pressure; a bimetallic strip contracting at two different rates in the 4°-below-zero cold was taking its temperature. The three operations were being recorded by three minutely moving pencil arms on a cylinder revolving once every four hours. As he had done nearly every morning for more than six months, Pilot Colton would give his notes and the box (an aerometeorograph...
...Even on zero nights Chilean policemen must patrol the pass beneath "The Christ of the Andes." Stabbing the dark with electric torches they discovered the stalled motorcade. The policemen did not ask to see passports, for passports are no longer needed between Argentina and Chile. But to find in eight shabby sedans eight shifty-eyed men and 40 young brides & seamstresses was a coincidence pointing to only one thing: the brothels of Buenos Aires...