Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railway Labor Executives Association: "I never heard of such a silly thing in my life as the attempt to reduce purchasing power at the same time the President is pouring out $4,500,000,000 in an attempt to increase buying power. They are not going to get one cent from us. ... We won't give them the whiskers from yesterday's shave...
...Chairman Jesse Jones announced that RFC had agreed to lend $14,000,000 to the Southern Pacific subject to ICC approval to meet equipment trust maturities and $778,000 to the Lehigh Valley largely for freight car repairs, that Baltimore & Ohio officials were "confident" they could "get through" 1938 without defaulting on any obligations...
What the growers wanted James Morrison to do was stop the chains from using strawberries as loss-leaders to get customers into their stores. First thing he did was to forbid buyers to use the Hammond Auction for anyone but their own chain...
Last January Robert Young forced Messrs. Bradley and Murphy out of their Alleghany jobs. But he failed to get them out of Chesapeake. When he tried, Messrs. Bradley and Murphy simply refused to attend the directors meeting, thus preventing a quorum and any action. Then, in his capacity as president, Mr. Bradley called a special meeting of Chesapeake Corp. stockholders with the avowed purpose of shuffling the directorate contrary to Owner Young's wishes, who feared losing his control thereby...
...British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...