Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital, grant a five-year operating subsidy of some $3,000,000 a year. To the Commission goes all the line's Class B stock (2,100,000 shares), almost half of its 252,000 shares of Class A stock. Six months after the transfer, the Commission will abandon the Dollar name, and the familiar dollar-sign insignia will disappear for good from the high seas...
...great progress had been made by the Roosevelt Purge, which when Franklin Roosevelt started on his political & fishing trip four weeks ago was supposed to be his big plan for the 1938 primaries. This week, Franklin Roosevelt, landing in Florida, had to decide whether to press or abandon the Purge against the three most-mentioned candidates for purging: Senator George in Georgia, Senator Smith in South Carolina, Senator Tydings in Maryland. A guide for Mr. Roosevelt was last week offered by Dr. George Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion. Dr. Gallup polled citizens on the question...
...meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese succeeded in having the Olympic Games of 1940 allocated to Tokyo to celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Empire. Last week, after the Japanese Government had repeatedly pooh-poohed recurrent rumors that it might abandon the Games because of the "incident" in China and had already voted 15,000,000 yen ($5,000,000) for the construction of an Olympic Village, the Minister of Public Welfare suddenly announced that the Government had withdrawn its support of the 1940 Olympics, asked Tokyo to revoke its invitation...
...been necessary to abandon the ship in the air over land, the crew would have slipped into parachutes suspended in the cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...
...scarcely dry on his ruling when three banks (Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Old Colony Trust Co.) filed foreclosures on mortgages involving $9,250,000. This week Judge Howe is meeting with "all persons" interested to decide whether to abandon the line...