The New International Year BookDodd, Mead and Company, 1921 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... cost of $ 1500 , and a photographed in some 10 hours or 3 days by the usual topographic methods in the brief time available each year . Finally an important 56:06 object of this long - distance flight was thor- oughly to test the ...
... cost of $ 1500 , and a photographed in some 10 hours or 3 days by the usual topographic methods in the brief time available each year . Finally an important 56:06 object of this long - distance flight was thor- oughly to test the ...
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... cost of operation prob- ably 50 per cent . Their introduction into the United States already had turned the attention of American manufacturers to the building of planes of greater economy of operation , and their tests by the air mail ...
... cost of operation prob- ably 50 per cent . Their introduction into the United States already had turned the attention of American manufacturers to the building of planes of greater economy of operation , and their tests by the air mail ...
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... cost of operation was not cash expenditure but represented the original cost to the army and navy of surplus war material which the Post Office Department put to use in carrying the mails . By the aërial service first - class mail had ...
... cost of operation was not cash expenditure but represented the original cost to the army and navy of surplus war material which the Post Office Department put to use in carrying the mails . By the aërial service first - class mail had ...
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... cost of fertilizers , machinery , and supplies , all of which had greatly increased since 1914 , made the hazard unusually large . Altogether the American farmers were confront- ed in the spring of 1920 with the most difficult situation ...
... cost of fertilizers , machinery , and supplies , all of which had greatly increased since 1914 , made the hazard unusually large . Altogether the American farmers were confront- ed in the spring of 1920 with the most difficult situation ...
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... cost of growing . The average cost of producing the 1919 crop of wheat for the entire United States was estimated by the Department of Agriculture to be $ 2.15 a bushel , and as it was not less for the crop of 1920 , the average farmer ...
... cost of growing . The average cost of producing the 1919 crop of wheat for the entire United States was estimated by the Department of Agriculture to be $ 2.15 a bushel , and as it was not less for the crop of 1920 , the average farmer ...
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Page 380 - Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country...
Page 96 - That the purpose of this corporation shall be to promote, through organization and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in Scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues, using the methods which are now in common use by Boy Scouts.
Page 202 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 389 - It shall be the duty of said bureau to formulate standards and policies which shall promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 38 - Tennessee. The bauxite from all localities in the United States, though it may vary in chemical composition, is on the whole similar in general appearance, with the exception of the " granitic bauxite
Page 380 - Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people...
Page 355 - This International Congress of Women expresses its deep regret that the terms of peace proposed at Versailles should so seriously violate the principles upon which alone a just and lasting peace can be secured, and which the democracies of the world had come to accept.
Page 152 - Columbia, consisting of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds of the District of Columbia...
Page 16 - Bringing about higher standards of comfort and beauty for the farm home. (4) Safeguarding the health of the farm family, and especially the health of the mother and growing child. (5) Developing and introducing money-yielding home industries where necessary in order to make needed home improvements.
Page 203 - Association shall be entitled to elect one delegate and one alternate to the Representative Assembly for each...