Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because people absorb sound, four times more amplification was needed when the stadium was full (20,000 capacity) than when it was empty. †The same camels were used last month in Cleveland for the Shriners' Convention...
Contract. Between 75 and 90 of the gasoline requirements of Richfield Oil Corp. of New York (solvent) will be filled by Arkansas Natural Gas Corp., Cities Service unit, according to a contract signed last week. Cities Service was expected to absorb Richfield Oil Co. of California after it went into receivership (TIME, Feb. 9), is still thought to hold much Richfield stock...
...Board would give no specific answer. It belligerently maintained a broad right to sell as much as the market would absorb without a major price decline, despite the fact that it would lose 30^ at current prices on each & every bushel thus sold. To the pleadings of Senator Watson that all wheat be withheld from sale, greying, strong-jawed James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman, turned a deaf ear. The Board, he said, would follow its selling policy regardless of political clamor...
...been jockeying for preferred time-position on the newsstands. On the theory that a magazine becomes a backnumber after the date printed on its cover, Liberty and Collier's are dated more than a week later than their appearance. The Post hitherto depended on the big weekend trade to absorb its newsstand stock, sometimes sent boys about on Monday to pick up remaining copies of the current issue and peddle them as best they could. By moving ahead to Tuesday, the Post presents itself with two more sales days per week. It apparently feels secure in the belief that Collier...
Early this year Richfield Oil Co. of California, whose $85,181,551 assets contained only $921,691 in cash against $24, 745,564 current liabilities, went into receivership (TIME, Jan. 26). It was soon rumored that Cities Service was in control of the company, would absorb it. But Cities Service, it developed, awaited definite figures on Richfield. Last week Commissioner Haight, after an eight-month investigation, revealed that Richfield has a $54,000,000 deficit. More sensational was his statement that there are "strong indications" that the records had been falsified. And even more sensational was his assertion that Outstander...