Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franco should win now it will in all probability be due to these factors. But if the food situation can be improved and the civil population can hold out under the strain, Franco's prospects may have definitely faded by the summer. Even so, the disappearance of Franco's hopes of victory would not necessarily mean the restoration of the Government's supremacy throughout Spain. Thus, if the Government can maintain its own food supplies, the most probable outcome would seem to be that the war may peter out with Spain divided into two parts more...
...commission of four, a staff of 25, headed by veteran U. S. delegate to international radio parleys, Maine's heavy-jowled Senator Wallace H. White Jr. It will be Senator White's job to make certain that if President Roosevelt wants to hold fireside chats with Japan or the tip-end of South America he will have enough bands...
...Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico's majority party, reorganized it to give the peasants and the army control, thus pulling labor's teeth. Next he shook up his Cabinet to make it 100% Cárdenas, shifted army heads to tighten his hold on the military and cracked down on labor by deciding that "useless" strikes are outlawed and he personally will determine which strikes are "useless...
...floe about the size of three tennis courts. It was drifting in the frigid, ice-choked sea some 100 miles east of Greenland. On that floe were four Soviet scientists and a dog named Jolly. They were in great danger, for the ice cake, once big enough to hold a sizable town, was getting rapidly smaller. Once ten feet thick, it was getting thinner...
...Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 provided that all utility holding companies must register with SEC under the penalty of being forbidden to use the mails and the facilities of interstate commerce if they did not. SEC would then have the power to control their financial and security transactions and, under the "death sentence" clause, to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system. Many utility holding companies not only refused to register but declared they would get injunctions against the whole Act. SEC then agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought...