Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court. Justice William Hitz of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia issued a temporary injunction forbidding the sale, gave the Dollar Company until Apr. 15 to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. The legal grounds for the injunction appear to be slight except for the general grounds of "public policy" used in the advocacy of the Pacific Mail...
...changes in corporate ownership. The basic reason for this is the readiness of the public to purchase securities at such times, plus the relatively high prices reached by securities when interest rates are low. The U. S. is apparently moving into another such merger period as 1900-06, except that today enthusiasm is more tempered with wisdom of ex- perience. But the figures are larger, except for the mammoth Steel Corporation merger of 1901. There are still few other billion-dollar corporations, yet in the last few years a large number have crept up to within striking distance...
Subscriber Darnall's statement is correct (except that the name...
...this year will go to the relief of European students and to local charities, such as the Family Welfare Society of Boston, the Cambridge Welfare Union, the Industrial Aid Society of Boston, and the Salvation Army. The books and magazines will be given, as usual, to the Merchant Marine, except for textbooks, which will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library...
...wouldn't have moved the cars," he declared," but they had parked for a longer time than the law allows. And if they hadn't been locked, we would have just pushed them out of the way. As it was, there was no way of moving them except having them towed. When they were towed, of course the garage had to be paid...