Word: impounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill would prevent the issuance of injunctions: 1) to prevent strikes; 2) to impound strike benefit payments; 3) to stifle strike publicity; 4) to block strike meetings. No strike could be construed in restraint of trade. Temporary injunctions would be limited to five days and then only if the complainant posted a large bond. Violation of injunctions (contempt of court) would be tried before a jury. Applicants for injunctions would have to establish their case, not by affidavits, as now, but by sworn testimony to which Labor could make answer. Enjoiners would also have to prove they had made "every...
Between Columbia and Lexington on the Saluda River a lake to impound 100 billion cubic feet of water and generate 261,000 h.p. is abuilding by the new Lexington Power Co., subsidiary of General Gas & Electric Corp...
...which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips to impound it for the court. These things are not of the future. For Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith have been "laid...