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...easy to defend. The withdrawal of Mr. Acheson serves to emphasize the perplexities that confront his successor. In fact the Treasury of the United States will have to get some help from President Roosevelt by way of assurances and pledges if future government securities are not to be driven downward in the markets of the world and if a way is to be found to get money for the government to carry on public works program without just turning on the printing presses...
...effect has been slight thus far but the advocates of the Warren plan insist that its full significance will not become apparent until about January, and that meanwhile the halt in the decline of commodity prices as revealed by the latest indexes is an encouraging sign. If the downward curve is stopped and even turns upward only a little each week, the results would be what the administration hopes to achieve...
Lowest on record was the general U. S. tuberculosis death rate in 1932. Fifty-nine cities which averaged 174.4 deaths per 100,000 in 1910, 63.2 in 1931, last year averaged only 56.3. To help keep the rate headed downward, the 29-year-old National Tuberculosis Association will begin its 26th annual sale of Christmas seals day after Thanksgiving...
...enforced politeness to an ojon, that I nearly died before I could pick a fight with some land dawdler or beat my wife about a trifle!" The Admiral of these pearl-fishers took a fancy to Juan, good-naturedly patted his head. "I did not wince, though that downward pat cost me a year's growth, since it shortened my neck. Men said that in moments of excitement the Admiral's love-pats had crippled many a woman; but they still flocked after him." At the missions along the road Juan heard many a tale of famed Father...
...complete isolation of the arm from the rest of the body. In the forward stroke, the shoulder, instead of following the arm, remained almost stationary. This caused the body to lie flat in the water, and the consequent lack of rolling was instrumental in accelerating their speed. The downward pull of the arm through the water was shortened, and the recovery made faster. This resulted in both arms being in the water at the same down; with two sources of power instead of one, speed increased immensely...