Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ministry in the Louvre Palace last week he found a strange contrast to the days when France was a banking power. Instead of financial kings, industrialists, foreign statesmen and Oriental potentates, his anterooms and the entrance to the Palace were crowded with anxious officials demanding back salary, retired civil servants wanting overdue pensions, and worried captains of industry begging for credit to get their factories going. "People expect miracles," remarked...
...British naval strength at Alexandria comprised only three battleships, with not nearly enough cruisers and destroyers (they had counted on French vessels which instead were disarmed in Alexandria's harbor) to match-on paper-the full strength of the Italian Navy (six battleships, with two new ones coming up). But the British counted on the fact that the thin-skinned Italian ships were not built to stand punching from British 15-in. guns...
...Instead of 20%, only 7% of Exposition visitors went to the Palace. Of those, one in ten (7,152) voted their preferences. Most notable of this year's innovations were the collections of modern Mexico and Central and South American paintings, which, gleaned over months of patient travel, had filled the directors with pride and confidence. But of 16 sections in the exhibition, these two polled the fewest votes (56 between them). Most popular section: the U. S.-owned old masters...
During the Arab-Jewish riots of 1936 in Jerusalem, Dr. Edward G. Joseph of Hadassah Hospital had many a patient whose abdomen was badly shot up. Dr. Joseph did not resort to drainage. Instead, he operated in a blood bath, stitched up his patients' intestines, closed their abdomens without further ado. When the victims recovered like clockwork, with no hint of peritonitis, he decided that free outpouring of blood in the peritoneal cavity might be more help than harm...
...Given to the city by the late Millionaire Horace Rackham, original attorney for the Ford Motor Co., who wisely took Ford stock instead of cash for his early services...