Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Julian (displaying what he said was a draft on the Bank of Abyssinia for $1,400): I needed no gratuity...
...observant foreign diplomat said privately afterward, "It was a wedding without the bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...Bureau of Mines and Illinois and Yale universities, studied to perfect a suitable system. Now air is pumped into a channel under the roadbed, let into the tunnel proper through slots at the curbs, pumped out through a channel above the ceiling. Thus no longitudinal draft (a fire and health danger) is created. Engineer George A. Posey adapted Mr. Singstad's method to his 3,545-ft. Oakland Tube. The Detroit & Canada Tunnel (thus incorporated) is ventilated by a system derived from Singstad and Posey. At each end it has six intake, six exhaust fans, capable of supplying...
...Commission was about to convene (next week, in Washington) to draft a report which may well alter the position of President Hoover on the issue. After 1 6 months of study it had not yet deter mined how deeply into Prohibition to delve. Commissioner Mackintosh's strong language, his robust character, indicated that there would be serious internal dis turbances if the Commission tries to side step the "guts...
...oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet. In the World War she convoyed transports, captured off Ensenada, Mexico, a shipload of German spies and U. S. draft-dodgers. In 1925, when the aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua...