Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three were New Dealers and they were all swept away in the elections. In line for the chair after old Mr. Sabath are Georgia's Cox, Virginia's Smith, North Carolina's Clark and Dies of Texas-all in varying degrees anti-Administration. Moreover, the new ratio on Rules will be nine Democrats to five Republicans. Small wonder that Franklin Roosevelt last week called his Congressional leaders to a parley next week in Warm Springs...
...strain can be perpetuated because, according to the Mendelian three-to-one ratio, only one in four of the young rats manifests the lethal defect. Four of the females littered last week, and the colony now numbers about 30. Since zoologists by studying such anomalies can cast more light on the mystery of heredity transmission in the chromosomes, several U. S. scientists have expressed great interest in Dr. Dunn's new boarders. He plans soon to ship specimens to other laboratories...
...Exchange to prevent any more Whitney scandals. Main points: 1) more frequent questionnaires and auditings of member firms; 2) prohibition of margin transactions and the maintenance of margin accounts by member firms and partners doing business with the public; 3) establishment of a 15-to-1 ratio instead of the present 20-to-1 between a broker's indebtedness and working capital; 4) separation of brokerage and dealer capital; 5) all loans by members, unless fully secured, must be reported; 6) statements on underwriting position to be filed weekly; 7) a central depository to be set up to hold...
...Treaty of 1935 by which the German Navy was limited to 35% of the size of the British Navy, plus the Treaty of 1937 by which qualitative limitation of the two navies with respect to each other was fixed. Tit would be the ratio at which, after diplomatic trading, the German Air Force would be quantitatively and qualitatively fixed in relation to the British Royal Air Force...
...Seyyid Tawfik then proffered a plan. Ignoring Britain's original idea of partition, he proposed that Palestine be set up as an independent state under British influence, similar in status to Iraq, that further immigration of Jews be prohibited and that the population be stabilized at the present ratio of 900,000 Arabs, 400,000 Jews. London Zionists, dead set against any plan in which the Jews would have minority status, howled that if the Iraqi's plan were accepted the Jews would be "sold down the river like Czechoslovakia...