Word: concernments
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...Government should take up birth control. It touches on the one side the liberties of women and on the other side the duty of the state to concern itself with the size of its population just as much as with the size of its army or the amount of the budget. With the use of one of the famed floating docks surrendered by Germany to Britain after the War, the 17th destroyer scuttled at Scapa Flow in June, 1919, by the Germans, was last week raised...
Accounts disagreed widely as to the reason of the nuptial cleavage. Some said that Mme. Kemal, ardent feminist, mixed in matters that did not concern her and was apt to treat her spouse with high-handed masterfulness. Other accounts said that the wife had found the husband unbearable, had decided to live with him no longer, had herself sought the divorce. Official statements discreetly said nothing. All that was definitely known was that about three weeks ago Mme. Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum...
Answered the Negro Secretary, who had previously given his age as 43 and had stated he was educated at the old Liberian College at Monrovia, Liberian capital: "Rubber is thriving well in Liberia and there will be a good crop this season. Fifteen hundred acres, planted by the Firestone concern as an experiment, have turned out a success, and 20,000 acres are now under cultivation...
...Ford Motor Co. is a one-man concern, just as much as any little business that you know of which makes $10,000 a year...
...addition to seeking to acquire the Huyler stores, the F. W. Shattuck Co. has acquired an interest in Christie, Brown & Co., Ltd.?largest Canadian makers of biscuits and similar products, with the view of introducing Christie biscuits in this country. Control of the Canadian concern has not been obtained, however, and the management will remain unchanged...