Word: ez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Names in the "EZ" classification are listed without comment. According to the Attorney General, one girl was promptly listed "EZ" after her father had declined to become an "investor"' in Tatler...
...butted, en his head got stuck. Den Brer Fox he sautered fort', lookin' des ez innercent ez one er go' mammy's mockin' birds...
Most important, the contract was extended for 99 years, during which time the Government would have no power of recapture over Ebasco. President Ibañez swore that he would chop off his own right hand rather than sign the contract as it appeared...
...Compañía Chileña de Electricidad, Limitada, local subsidiary of Ebasco, returned a soft answer. In an open letter to Santiago's three most important papers they wrote that they were surprised and shocked at President Ibañez's protest, the more so since the power contract in every stage of its development had been inspected and approved by congressional and technical commissions "composed of Chileans of high repute," finally that it had been enthusiastically approved by none other than Señor Francisco Lobos, Director of the Electrical Services of the Republic. However...
Ebasco could afford to be polite. It knew, and President Ibañez knew that there was not another corporation in Chile capable of providing the electrical service which growing Chile had to have, that if the President would not sign this contract he would have to sign another very much like it. President Ibañez in revenge demanded and obtained the dismissal of Electrical Director Lobos, and the matter passed...