Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal war is recognized, the Maritime Commission must see to it that no U.S. bottoms carry munitions, or any other forbidden cargoes, to ports of belligerents. Other agencies prepared for possible emergencies, each in its own domain. SEC, fearful of a stockmarket crisis, conferred with officers of the New York Stock Exchange. The Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, fearful of the effects of war and the Neutrality Act on crops and prices,* studied 1914 precedents and the current state of crops and industry...
...grey) supplies the method in their work: tiny, swarthy, cigar-chewing Bachelor Lorenz Hart (who at 43 is getting bald), the madness. Dick Rodgers lives with his attractive wife in a duplex apartment in Manhattan's swanky East 77th Street, summers at smart Sands Point, Long Island, gives formal dinner parties, draws a bid to the famed Charles Shipman Paysons' (the former Joan Whitney) Fourth of July parties, hobnobs with socialite Margaret Emerson, the Herbert Bayard Swopes, Noel Coward...
...hayfield in lower Indiana, dotted with 29 blue-&-white striped tents, last week went 70,000 steamer clams, 4,250 milk-fed chickens, 900 watermelons, three truckloads of roasting corn, 60 chefs, 250 waiters, 36 bands, 8,200 personally invited Republicans from twelve States and 11,000 uninvited Republicans. Formal purpose of the occasion was to launch the Republican Congressional campaign of 1938. The host, who laid out $30,000 for the party, was buoyant Homer E. Capehart, "the daddy of the electric automatic phonograph," now vice president & sales director of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., after building up his own Capehart...
...Commonwealth Edison Co. 30-year, 3½% bonds, which went at a premium of 1¼ (offering price: 103½). Equally successful was a $20,000,000 issue of Lone Star Gas Corp. 15-year, 3½% debentures, which sold at a premium of 1⅞ (formal price was 102). Week's only industrial issue was $10,000,000 in Crucible Steel 3½% debentures. Like the year's two biggest industrial loans (U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 issue in June, Standard Oil's $85,000,000 issues in July), part of Crucible Steel...
...Smithsonian Institution was sufficiently roused by all this to point out that it had applied for and received a formal searching permit from the U. S. Forest Service, so that even if the body were found by someone else it would still belong to the Smithsonian. Free-lance searchers disagreed with this view. The Portland Oregonian quoted one "eminent," unnamed Oregon jurist as follows: "Anyone finding a mineral deposit (and a meteorite is a mineral) may file a claim and get possession by going through certain legal procedure at the courthouse of the county wherein it is found...