Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conducted by the Navy Department before Dec. 1. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt explained that the ships would be sold for salvage and that the sale " will be the largest of its kind ever arranged, adding: " In other countries, notably Great Britain, the industry of ship-breaking has long been established; this industry is yet in its infancy in America. The Department believes the forthcoming sale may well establish such an industry on a sound basis in this country." The first sale will take place on Oct. 25 and will consist of ships under construction on the ways in Government Navy yards...
This is an unusual ruling from Mr. McCarl, watchdog of the Treasury. Hitherto he has chiefly confined himself to cutting the pay of persons in the Army and Navy. Only lately he ruled that persons contracting occupational diseases in Government service could not receive compensation because they could not establish a definite date on which they received injuries. President Coolidge disapproved this ruling...
...contradictory attacks made upon them in connection with it. First, they were blamed for keeping gasoline prices too high. But when they reduced prices to meet all competition, they were blamed for so doing on the grounds that they aimed to ruin the independent oil companies and thereby to establish a monopoly...
...Annunzian Chamber of Work at Florence. The charter of the Chamber is based on his Constitution of the Quarnaro, adopted in his Fiume venture. This Constitution bases society on a system of guilds, both of workmen and employers, and is a self-conscious endeavor to re-establish the spirit of medieval society. The Chamber is distinct from both Socialist and Fascist Syndicalism. Its formation is considered to mark a new period of political ambitions on the part of the poet...
Upon marrying an American millionaire she discovers he has seven divorced wives. Under the circumstances she postpones the honeymoon until he can establish the stability of his eighth amour. This he succeeds in doing after several moderately diverting reels of compromising situations...