Word: containment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week French customs agents noticed white powder seeping from packing cases addressed to Sirdar Al Ghulam Nabi Khan, Afghan Minister in Paris, just appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Four cases were seized, found to contain $33,000 worth of heroin...
...York has more than half the buildings in both classifications. Surprising New York statistic is that more than half the high buildings are between 14th and 59th streets, that Midtown Manhattan has more tall buildings than the famed downtown financial district. The following table shows what U. S. cities contain how many buildings of 21 or more stories...
Thus population changes, ignored since 1910, will at last be considered. When the post-census Congress meets, it will, on estimates of the 1930 count, contain six additional members from California, four from Michigan, three from Ohio, two from New Jersey and Texas, and one from Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington. Subtractions will be three from Missouri; two from Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. Mississippi; one from Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia...
...tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell only on their labels...
There is a pallid beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from activity and the life of the world. It is perhaps significant that the writer's favorite adjective and one which appears on nearly every page is "wan". "Thalia" is wan; it exists in a dream world of its own and lacks the vitality that is an essential part...