Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With eyes snapping Juliu Maniu decreed acceptance of the German bid, well-nigh prohibitive though it was. "Our need for locomotives at this time is basic and fundamental!" said he, as if to rebuke the slow low bidders. Ferreting correspondents learned that a down payment of $5,000 will be made on each German locomotive, successive payments to be on the instalment plan with a carrying charge...
...Basic Policies. Thus in a half-month the new Board had traveled far. Before leaving Washington it had established fundamental policies...
...Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the same subject has riled U. S. officials before (TIME, June 3), lectured the Washington government on ways and means of checking rum-smuggling. Treasury officials in Washington snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise payments; 2) the U. S. requires, under its navigation laws, no clearance for pleasure craft under five tons-the category into which most rum runners fall-bound for a foreign port. For months...
Alert correspondents soon learned the basic facts: the popular peasant government of energetic Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had successfully suppressed an attempted coup d'etat; 200 persons, most of them artillery officers, had been arrested; suspected regiments were confined to their barracks; strict censorship of the press, abolished by the Maniu government eight months ago, was instantly revived...
...found itself in the midst of patent infringement litigation featured 'by a Texas v. Standard of Indiana suit. Therefore Standard of Indiana, Standard of New Jersey, Texas Co. and Gas Products formed a pool, commonly known as the Patent Club. In order to use any of the four basic cracking processes, independents had to get licenses from and pay royalties to the pool members. The U. S. government turned a suspicious eye toward the pool and its activities. In 1924, anti-trust proceedings were instituted against the Patent Club and 48 associated companies. In 1927 a Master in Chancery...