Word: canceling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, however, the centre of the interest argument concerns the 3^% monthly or 42% in a year which the Russell Sage Foundation says it is fair for personal finance companies to charge. In some States where the legislatures have passed the Small Loan Law, attempts are being made to cancel it. Investigation has shown that much of the propaganda against small loan companies is directed by unregulated usurers who know they will lose their business in competition with licensed personal finance companies. But in addition to these sources, many contentions are heard that 42% is usurious...
...case was decided against Harvard, which claimed that undue influence was exerted to cause Mrs. Amy E. Kirkpatrick to cancel a will bequeathing more than $1,000,000 to Harvard and to designate Ruth Love-land, her sister, as residuary legatee. After winning the case, Mrs. Love-land agreed to give $200,000 to Harvard...
...scientific colleagues have made a vigorous Vernesque fantasy and used every resource of the camera in photographing it. Good scenes: the pock-marked moon-face swimming up, nearer and nearer out of space; the point 220,000 mi. from the earth where the gravity of earth and moon cancel each other and the people in the rocket cabin have to use arm and foot straps to keep from floating around...
...from time to time the Ministry of Agriculture announces what wheat is worth, serves notice that if the price falls much below the announced figure the Government will: 1) up the tariff on foreign wheat; 2) reduce the legal proportion of foreign flour in French bread; or 3) cancel wheat import licenses. So successful has been this system that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last week the highly satisfactory price of wheat...
...discover early signs of cancer, this issue of the Annals of Surgery will be republished at the end of this month as a book, Cancer.* Editor of the book is Dr. Frank Earl Adair, 43, Ewing disciple, attending surgeon at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancel? and Allied Diseases. Dr. Adair is also coauthor of a chapter in the book, on treating skin cancer with mustard...