Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President" will turn up on records for the first time, in the new Harvard Band album coming out in mid-March, Paul B. Finney '50, manager of the band, announced yesterday. The traditional tune did not appear in previous Band releases because the organization was afraid that other bands might steal the arrangement...
...state owned oil fields. Although most oil conservation is now in the hands of the states, perhaps the doctrine of paramount rights would allow the federal government to regulate the conservation of the oil while the states would maintain their ownership. States and oil interests, however, fear what might be done by the federal government in the name of conservation...
...most vociferous lobbies in this case is an association of state attorneys general screaming states rights. They argue that if the doctrine of federal "paramount rights" can lead to the government taking over ownership of what was considered state property, then carried to its logical conclusion paramount rights might be used to seize any state property. The federal government, however, denies any right to anything except the marginal sea area...
Though housewives were delighted, businessmen, remembering the 1920 collapse, worried that the commodity slump might get out of hand. Though stock prices fell again last week, putting the Dow-Jones industrials below their post-election lows, there were few other signs of a widespread price drop. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' general index of wholesale prices (food, metals, textiles, etc.) had changed little in a month. The storm, as yet, had blown only on the farms...
...interest in the company. This was so much more than any other company offered that oilmen were aghast. Furthermore, the world oil supply was already so ample that U.S. imports from the Middle East and Venezuela are being cut back. Last week there were signs that gasoline prices might soon be coming down. In view of that, Getty's rivals thought he would have to step some to make his concession-if he gets...