Word: breakup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope that those attending it would contrive a means of reducing oil production, possibly by an interstate compact to be ratified by Congress. No such means was found. Instead, attention was focused upon differences within the oil industry which block the way to conservation. Two factors plainly caused the breakup...
...ship was due primarily to large, unbalanced, external, aerodynamic forces arising from high velocity air currents. Whether the ship, if entirely intact and undamaged, would have broken under the forces existing, or whether prior minor damage due to gas pressure was a determining factor in the final breakup, are matters which this Court is unable definitely to determine...
...decision to break up the library of the famous philosopher and psychologist, was due to the breakup of the old home. Mrs. James died about one year ago and since her death the library of about 2000 volumes has remained untouched...