Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the child Hardy was born," said he, "the doctor thought him dead and dropped him in a basket. That was an anxious moment for this country. But a woman stepped forward to make sure, and found he was alive. A statue to this woman-Kennington could have done worse than to give us that...
...Costa Occidental, known as the Anti-Chinese Society. This society resorted to an old law passed by the Sonora Legislature in 1919, providing that all industrial and mercantile establishments must employ 80% Mexicans. In March 1931 this law was amended to prevent the exclusion of naturalized Chinese clerks anxious to evade the law, but despite its severity no serious attempt was made to enforce it until last June...
...Wall Street was secretive about details of its share ? rates of interest, maturity dates, etc., etc. ? except to say that it would not be passed on to the public. The French were frank er. The French credit will run for a year and the Paris bankers are anxious to con vert it on maturity into a 20-year long term loan. At least $100,000,000 of their share will be sold to the public immediately...
...long letter of protest to the Shipping Board. It was not the first time, he declared, that I. M. M. had suffered grave injustice at the hands of the Government. Criticism of I. M. M. for owning foreign flag tonnage was unjustified; the company was entirely U. S.-controlled, anxious to spend more money to develop North Atlantic trade. Then Mr. Franklin revealed an astonishing fact. During the Wilson administration, he declared, his company received from a British syndicate an offer of $130,000,000 for I. M. M.'s foreign flag tonnage. The offer was accepted but papers...
...agencies. She created a cooperative form of management. She got rid of the thousands of dollars worth of machine guns, ammunition and barbed wire the company kept on hand for labor disturbances. She won the loyal affection of her workers, all of whom know her by sight, and the anxious distrust of her colleagues in the coal business...