Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bluntly the Admiralty replied: "Service rations now include herring, kippers and bloaters. The average sailor prefers meat. If the fishing industry desires to develop consumption of fish it should conduct an advertising campaign among British sailors...
James Buell Munn, professor of English, will conduct the morning services at the Appleton Chapel of Memorial Church...
...find a way into a better German future in common with the National Socialist movement?" As though to give Dollfuss time to answer this preposterous question, he declared an eight-day "armistice'' on Nazi activities in Austria. "Party comrades will be allowed in this period merely to conduct propaganda among former members of the Socialist Party or to ward off direct attacks against their own persons...
...buttonwood tree in Wall Street in 1792. No broker ever became President and few much of anything else. But in the last 142 years the members of the Stock Exchange have perfected a method of buying & selling securities which functions with mathematical precision and a code of financial conduct which is the highest in the world. Its 1,375 members, the best-dressed group of men in the U. S., have conferred on their officials absolute and arbitrary powers. The governors of the New York Stock Exchange can do anything they want, and from their decision there is no appeal...
...exchanges in many parts of the country . . . conduct, of course, a national business. . . . The managers of these exchanges have, it is true, often taken steps to correct certain obvious abuses. We must be certain that abuses are eliminated, and to this end a broad policy of national regulation is required. ... It is my belief that exchanges for dealing in securities and commodities are necessary and of definite value to our commercial and economic life. Nevertheless, it should be our national policy to restrict, as far as possible, the use of these exchanges for purely speculative purposes...