Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city surgeon states that there is a deplorable amount of venereal disease in the city and that numerous high-school students have contracted disease in the 'redlight' district, usually following a period of drinking in the neighboring taverns. He states, however, that disease contracted from the prostitutes is not nearly so frequent as from the 'pickups' who frequent the night clubs and dance halls where liquor is sold...
...policy of continuing the meets under these circumstances would amount to asking for trouble gratuitously, since Mr. Farmer, the Yale athletic director, has already demonstrated his unwillingness to make any compromise or adjustments with regard to boxing decisions...
...Harvard Student Union will place itself in a very ridiculous position tonight if it carries out its intention of asking President Conant to reconsider his decision. But after all there is a certain amount of self-importance to be gained from cheap publicity...
...criminal lawyer (Richard Dix) who is good at persuading juries to acquit under-worldlings. When he is denounced by an outraged judge and his brother (Owen Davis Jr.) is killed, Dix changes his ways, joins the Department of Justice as a special investigator. The gangsters, having stolen a large amount of gold bullion, buy a Nevada ranch with an abandoned mine ship out the gold as newly-produced metal. Matters are made harder for Dix when he becomes enamored of the ringleader's sister (Margaret Callahan), but he is helped when the "gold miners" start shooting each other...
...stock in a company called Colombian Petroleum. The other 21% of Colombian Petroleum is still held by Carib Syndicate. In the highly involved concession arrangement both Colombian Petroleum and the Gulf subsidiary are the concessionaires, each being responsible for the other's obligations, which include a prescribed amount of well-drilling and, after potential production has reached about 20,000 bbl. per day, the building of a pipeline more than 200 miles to the Colombian coast. In the end, though, Texaco and Socony will have to stand the costs. Most favored parties in the Barco setup are the Colombian...