Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times and gone prowling out of his sanctum in search of news stories. Fortnight ago when a general steel strike threatened, 34-year-old Editor Powell led four of his newshawks to Gary, Ind., U. S. Steel's private stronghold in the Midwest. He wanted to observe the exact layout of the steel mills and to chart lines of communication for covering what looked like a major industrial...
...President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that the U. S. ought to keep an exact balance sheet of its transactions with other countries, to know whether its trade was profitable. Economists have made this sensible point before. From the figures and estimates available Mr. Peek offered a tentative balance. Since 1896 he calculated that foreign nations should be debited with...
...nearly every big law office in the land one morning last week at least one partner sat watch in hand, fidgeting for high noon, E. S. T. At precisely that hour President Roosevelt signed the Corporate Bankruptcy Bill. The exact minute of enactment was important because the new law instructed Federal judges to consider all bankruptcy petitions in the order received. The President wanted each & every prostrate U. S. corporation to have the same opportunity to rise and pray for cheap relief...
Such were last week's aviation casualties. Because the danger of flight is not willingly publicized by aviation companies, few laymen can get exact information about the risks involved. Last week the risks were discussed in an article entitled "Flying Is Still Dangerous" in The American Mercury by Kenneth Brown Collings, Wartime Navy flyer, onetime mail pilot, flight instructor and airport manager, author of Flight Hazard. Some of Author Collings' statements: Average age of airline pilots is 32. Average men of 32 engaged in normal ground occupations die at the rate of less than...
Recently that fight has loomed most noticeably in France. The Comite des Forges has decidedly not been a popular name in France. To be exact, it never WAS a popular name. Just as a politician in the United States was always against Wall Street during his campaign, so in France many a political victory has been won by accusing the opposition of being in the pay of the Comite des Forges. Of late, as political tension in France has grown hotter, so resentment against the De Wendels and the Schneiders has grown more bitter...