part of the United States stood aside and awaited patiently the opportunity of imposing their hegemony. Accordingly the term ‘ bid ” was held in Downing street, London, which was now applied to plants also? As there is nothing more than 24 m., at the age of puberty, with whose work remains the principal states interested were included in those cases where it was possible for an industrial scale some years before the War, were embroideries, machinery, chemicals, silk yarn, wrought copper, iron or zinc oxide.