Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members but the number is steadily growing as the men learn about the existance and efficiency of the staff. This group is served regardless of financial status unless the case involves persons with obvious ability to pay private counsel and would attract public notice. Every effort is made to avoid competition with the local bar in cases involving the general public...
...were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying off the streets to avoid the rest. More nuisance than menace, however, the veterans were so broken-spirited that Kingstree's two-man police force could handle any number of them with the greatest of ease...
...avoidance, the President cheerily defined, was what tax evasion became when a rich man hired a $250,000 lawyer to change the word. One way to avoid taxes, and one which cost the Government a lot of money, was to form family trust funds. One U. S. family, he declared, had its fortune split up into 197 such funds...
...Director Darling began with a duck census, taken by conservation agents and helpful sportsmen all over the U. S. one day last February, just before the northward flight (TIME, Feb. n). Census-takers posted themselves on bays, inlets, lakes and rivers in such a way as to try to avoid counting the same ducks twice. Against the rough tally thus obtained, the Biological Survey checked later reports from northern breeding grounds, arriving at the figure of 24,000,000 as the number of ducks that will fly south this autumn...
...mortgage, would bear fixed interest. Interest on the other two, a 5% convertible general mortgage and a 4% convertible note issue, would be paid only if earned. Net result would be to cut fixed charges from $25,966,000 to $7,503,000 per year. Thus while MOP would avoid insolvency in lean years by paying only fixed charges, it would be weighted down by an increasing burden of contingent charges during prosperous years. Finally, the plan would reduce the common holdings of Allegheny Corp., top Van Sweringen holding company, in MOP from 63% to about 40%, the preferred from...