Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with which two mighty producers went to war over the Indian market. Standard Oil had bought Soviet Oil, was shipping it direct from Russia to Calcutta, Bombay, Madras. Dutch Shell charged the oil was "stolen" by the Soviet from its pre-Revolutionary owners, including Dutch Shell itself. Determined to keep Russian stolen oil from India, it began a price-cutting war which made Indian gasoline-users chuckle with joy. They were the victors in a contest which was costing Standard Oil something like $4,000,000 annually, costing Dutch Shell perhaps three times as much...
...were well pleased with themselves, for they had just agreed that, with the consent of the Dominion and Imperial Parliaments, they would merge all their services into a single, gigantic corporation. And they had guarded against internal wars between radio and cable factions. They had asked the government to keep the balance of power...
...this light, the suggested combine took on a new color. Suppose Magnate Farrell had made agreements with German makers to keep greedy U. S. hands out of European markets, in return for promises to keep foreign steel from offering serious competition in U. S. markets. Suppose the export combine was for the purpose of making these agreements effective. Suppose the Federal Trade Commission, to whom the combine application was made, should view such agreements as potent and possibly dangerous aids toward controlling domestic as well as foreign prices...
...week of jingles, Poet MacLeish remembers the poet's lay, to keep it lyric. The wind in the grass is still, as in his earliest writings, a spiritual phenomenon. But he has since found power in harsh words-"an oak screams in the wind . . . the wet wood smoke blinds...
...with new rhymes: "fronds-bronze, millions-brilliance, color-duller, cardboard-hard, bored,"-studied inaccuracies which emphasize a lack of spontaneity. Indeed, this poet is at his best in historical comment, or in one satiric sonnet that is an anthology of Georgian poetry, complete with bucolic landscape where "immemorial lambs keep moonlit trysts with deathless nightingales...