Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from providing small investors with an opportunity to obtain broad investment diversification, an investment trust's only justification is a record better than the market averages. U. S. management trusts as a whole have provided employment for hordes of bright young college graduates, a good living for their managers and plenty of commissions for their banking sponsors. Otherwise they have failed to justify their existence...
...footer weighing 140 Ib. with fuel, has reached speeds of 700 m.p.h., heights around 7,500 ft. Its fall is protected by an automatic parachute. Dr. Goddard, who hates to stir up gaudy talk of moon flights, announces his present objective as reaching 50 miles into the stratosphere "to obtain meteorological, astronomical, magnetic and other data of altitudes greatly exceeding those which can be reached by balloon...
Medical men in Germany would of course not think of using thymol as a substitute for novocain, although the public is using it widely to obtain temporary relief, when the dentist cannot be reached, particularly in rural districts. Naturally the dentists know this, but frown upon the practise because people will not see the dentist as often, as long as they have a harmless and convenient "pain killer" in their medicine chests...
...confirmatory evidence was a Borah announcement: "After a thorough survey of the Ohio situation, I am convinced that the people of that State should be given an opportunity to express their choice in the Presidential primary on May 12.... To obtain an expression of popular will, it is my intention to place at least eight candidates for delegates-at-large in the field...
Slaver Kassel had operated largely in London, setting up girls sent over by M. Vernon each in her own discreet Mayfair flat. Each paid from $250 to $500 to obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...