Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure because of impurities. He had the brilliant idea of extracting the impurities, making commercial use of them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical Co., paid his board bill with stock. Midlanders viewed him with distrust and in 1900 brought suit charging that the Dow plants depreciated property, filled the town with vile and injurious odors. But by then Dow Chemical had been formed to take over Midland Chemical and another company Dr. Dow had formed; was well able to defend itself. Since 1900, Midlanders have changed...
Confident of the ultimate outcome of chain methods was Silas Hardy Strawn, chairman of Montgomery, Ward & Co. "The agencies attempting to create public distrust in the chain methods of distribution should and must be counteracted," said he. ". . . An enlightened public will be a friend and not an enemy." He carefully examined the legal end of the situation, said legislation against chain stores is in almost all. cases unconstitutional...
Professor Doriot had to overcome the obstacles of secrecy in French firms before the school could be established. He states, "I recognized the conservative attitude of French business men, and their distrust of outsiders in regard to their own affairs. Fortunately this has been remedied, since these men had decided on having a school like the Harvard institution and were ready to cooperate with it. The policy of American industrialists is to give problems and cases from their offices to the Harvard school for study. After the French change of mind we have now all the cases we need...
...Independent tribesmen living in the mountains of northwest India. Distrust of all mankind and readiness to strike the first blow for the safety of his own life are the maxims of Afridi...
Through foreign office secretaries in London hinted at a Gandhi connection, the only thing that the fighting Afridi and the nonviolent disciples of Saint Gandhi have in common is a thoroughgoing distrust of the British. Fierce Fazli Wahid is a very great warrior who would rather fight than eat. In that he is more fanatical than his followers. Month ago when he issued a call for a holy war against the British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until...