Word: impounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politicians decided that, as their share of PWA's millions, they would take $6,000,000 (as a starter) to divert some of the flow of the big Santee River, which empties east of Charleston, into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud but sleepy Charleston...
...Alleghany Corp., top holding company of the oldtime Van Sweringen railroad domain. But Guaranty was trustee for three Alleghany bond issues under an indenture which specified that whenever the collateral (including Alleghany's C. & O. holdings) behind them fell below 150% of their face value, the bank could impound it. When the collateral so fell, the bank impounded...
...crust three-year-olds were in the parade to the post. Favorite was Airman William Boeing's Porter's Mite, the handsome bay colt who outshone all his contemporaries in the classic Belmont Futurity last autumn. Almost as popular was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Impound, son of famed Sun Beau, who beat Porter's Mite in a short handicap race at Santa Anita two weeks before. The twelve others, proudly prancing to the starting line, were expected to fight it out for third place...
...Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time and had won it by the largest margin ever-five lengths. Co-favorites Porter's Mite and Impound had fought it out indeed, but for third place, one length behind Xalapa Clown...
...Midwest Baptist churches, had been baptized (by immersion) in the Disciples of Christ Church.f Thereupon he was pelted with demands of "Be rebaptized or resign." President Sherwood considered himself thoroughly baptized, flatly refused to be reimmersed. At that the Kentucky State Baptist Association, which partly supports Georgetown, voted to impound its grants until the college or Dr. Sherwood gave in. The Association did not realize what stern stuff it was up against...