Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where there are subsidies there is apt to be graft and corruption. On that as- sumption the U. S. Senate last summer began looking into air and ocean mail contracts. A special committee headed by Alabama's Black found that U. S. shipping men bought vessels for almost nothing from the Government and then collected fat fees for carrying almost no mail, that U. S. airline executives made big speculative profits while small concerns were being frozen off the air mail map. But not until last week did Senator Black and his committee strike pay dirt that, in newspaper...
Probably the boldest procedure which Dr. Matas devised is the Matas Operation. Under some conditions an artery will blow up like a toy balloon. Its walls grow paper thin. This is an aneurism which any rough usage or surgery is apt to burst. Dr. Matas conceived the plan of opening the blood filled sacs, stitching the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal sized bore...
...custom for certain of the more musically inclined to whistle or even lift their voices in song (to be polite) whenever they leave a class. Perhaps it is a song of rejoicing or merely an expression of well being but in any case the result is apt to be distressing to anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot...
...Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special shallow-draught "baby" tankers able to jump the treacherous sandbar at the mouth of the lake. Three great oil companies share most of this trade: Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard of New Jersey, Gulf. Before NRA, Manhattan motorists were more apt to ride on Venezuelan gasoline than not, for it is cheaper to bring it by sea from Caracas than from Oklahoma or Texas...
...rest in the friendly hands of two receivers. Its New York neighbors have known for weeks that, with $700,000 in liabilities, its receivership was inevitable. Others, looking back a quarter century to the time when Chautauqua was the unquestioned summer capital of U. S. Culture, have long been apt to think of it in the past tense...