Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think," concluded the ruling, "that the investor in the petitioner's stock has no assurance that the company will be able to increase its rate of dividends in the near future, or, in fact, will be able to maintain the increased rate of dividends recently voted. Thus in our judgment, the approval of the company's proposal at this time, would have little, if any, effect in causing a wider distribution of its stock among investors. Such as would occur would, in our opinion, be to the disadvantage of the investor...
...fact that large courses in the field of the arts can in fact be successfully conducted is amply proved by Fine Art Ic and Id, elementary courses without entrance requirements which are popular and at the same time maintain a high academic standard, and there is no reason why Music 3 and 4 could not profit from the example set by these courses...
Senator Caraway explained the purpose of his resolution: "To expose the fortunetellers and astrologers* who maintain associations here at the expense of gullible men and women back in the States." He also hoped to disclose "who it is that finances the Southern Tariff Association, the Muscle Shoals lobby, the Estates Tax lobby, the present Tariff lobby, Mr. Joseph R. Grundy...
...control of Pacific Public Service Co. which, besides peddling ice, ice cream, water and cold-storage space in southern California, sells gas and electricity to a large population just south of San Francisco Bay. Because by such means they could cut down gas waste and yet maintain oil production, large California oil companies supported the conservation law. Small companies, on the other hand, raised a chorus of howling protest. They could not afford to build casing-head or "recycling" plants; the small amount of gas they wasted would not warrant the expense of pipe-lines and could not, therefore...
...kept cool in Southwestern deserts by special aluminum paint and anti-actinic window glass, of its freight service, so efficient that a carload of potted lilies recently went through without a pot broken or a single flower crushed. But its hospitals have long been its especial pride. Most roads maintain a staff of nurses and doctors with emergency stations at important terminals. Only three roads have their own hospitals: the Illinois Central, at Chicago, the Central of Georgia, at Savannah, and the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds) and at Houston (125 beds). Last week Edward Stephen Harkness, good...