Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copper mines in the Ural Mountains, related: "I was assigned to the Moskva-Komsomol-skaya pits . . . Upon my arrival I found some Polish girls, still in their teens, from a previous transport. . . The girls told me how, when they first came to work in the pits, they cried with fear. The working day [was] eleven hours long. The only meal we had during those eleven hours was black bread and water . . . Punishment for ... tardiness was three months in prison...
...federal regulation of state owned oil fields. Although most oil conservation is now in the hands of the states, perhaps the doctrine of paramount rights would allow the federal government to regulate the conservation of the oil while the states would maintain their ownership. States and oil interests, however, fear what might be done by the federal government in the name of conservation...
...with those of the states. Oil rights to an area of land are leased to the highest bidder, bids later being made public; and when oil is struck, the owner of the land receives a royalty, usually one-eighth. The preference of business for state control stems from a fear of a disruption of the industry in a transition period and a fear of political juggling of oil on the national seene. Considering the huge sums that have been invested in oil gambling, it is not surprising that business favors the conditions under which they made the gamble...
...personal bias and prejudice." Eccles conceded that, through the Eccles Investment Co., his family owns 44% of the stock of First Security Corp. of Ogden (Utah), which advertises itself as "the largest banking institution in the intermountain states." But he insisted that that had nothing to do with his fear that Transamerica was a monopoly...
...first of the 19 was written in 1929, the last in 1948, and like the chase-and thriller-books that Writer Greene calls his "entertainments" (The Ministry of Fear, etc.), many of them seem to have been written with his left hand, or written to sell. But Greene is obviously not at ease with the short story; it brings out his second-rate gift for contrivance and cramps his now clearly first-rate gift for dramatizing the lives of the weak-abandoned, as one of his characters puts it, "to the enormities of Free Will...