Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government took the manner of a family dentist remarking, as he starts extracting a sore tooth from a small boy's jaw, "I am sorry if this hurts, but it can't be helped and you'll feel better when it's out. So please hold still...
...gasped at Dr. West, applauded Dr. Fishbein's oratory, loudly contested A. M. A. ideas. Asked for no formal endorsement, the delegates hailed Miss Roche's assurance that the next Congress would consider her program. To Manhattan went Dr. Hugh Cabot and friends, where they proceeded to hold their first annual meeting, under the name of the Committee of Physicians. They upheld the Roche program. To their Chicago fortress went A. M. A.'s triumvirate, repeating: "There can be but one master in the house of physician...
...when U. P. & L. debentures sold as low as 20¼? on the dollar, Floyd Odium's big investment trust. Atlas Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved out of office and in last week's poker game this toppled tycoon sat quietly on whatever cards he may still hold...
...Provincetown, Mass., where some 50 professional artists and hundreds of students regularly spend their summers, two juries, from the same association, one conservative and one modernist, selected no pieces from the work of members. But last week 35 artists decided that was not enough, planned to hold open house all summer, turned their homes into galleries for summer visitors and possible buyers...
...price of wheat, last week 71?, falls below the 60? fixed figure, the Government must hold the wheat until the price rises. Thus it will be spending $100,000,000 or more to store the surplus, while foreign producers will have the world market to themselves by selling at the prevailing price. To insure the U. S. of a "fair share" of the world wheat business, Secretary Wallace would like the world's farmers to store their surplus wheat this year...