Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruhr. Germany, with the unexpressed but self-evident sympathy of the U.S., Italy and Britain, was anxious to have the French and Belgians evacuate the Ruhr as soon as the Experts' Plan had been put into effect...
...France desired to obtain solid commercial advantages for herself, particularly with reference to an extension of the Alsace Agreement, incorporated in the Versailles Treaty, by which Alsatian produce is admitted duty free into Germany. In light of a coming era of renewed commercial activity Britain and Italy were also anxious to conclude new commercial treaties. The whole matter became so complex that it was decided to hold a special conference in Paris during October to deal with the problems and draw up the treaties...
...chirugien Georges Gelly, who performed many a successful operation on the faces of wounded poilus, had his right eye blown out by an accidental explosion in his experimental laboratory. Dr. Gelly, a leading dental surgeon in Paris, well-beloved by ex-service men, had his home flooded by anxious enquiries...
...verdict of acquittal, given after five hours of deliberation, was the signal for what the press described as "one of the most remarkable demonstrations ever seen in a New York courtroom." Fallon, who never lost his poise, even during the anxious hours of the jury's deliberation, thanked each juror individually and then was carried by his friends to a waiting automobile. The next day he held what amounted to a reception in a box at the baseball game at the Polo Grounds...
Finally a "semiofficial statement" of the consolidation plan was given to an anxious world by parties unnamed. It provided for the creation of a brand new company (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.) to acquire and hold the stocks of the old "Nickel Plate" (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.), the Erie, the C. & O., the Hocking Valley, and the Pere Marquette. The new company will have two classes of stock, common and 6% preferred, which will be exchanged in varying ratios for the stocks of the several roads going into the merger, on terms apparently...