Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Common carriers must obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity, which will be given automatically to those in business as of June 1. Contract carriers must obtain permits, will get them automatically if they were in business as of July 1. Others, to operate, must show cause. Complete control is given ICC over common carrier passenger & freight rates...
...policy of war preparedness at any price. Profoundly influenced by Niccolo Machiavelli, the great Florentine who understood Italians better than anyone else, Dictator Mussolini considers that in an hour when all investments are bad, the best is to speculate on a program of conquest or, better still, obtain Ethiopia by intimidation. No leader ever fell and no people ever revolted or were basically unhappy, Il Duce feels, while they were expanding their frontiers...
...ante). The annulment confirmed the referee's recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference to the onetime Barbara Hutton, Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo declared...
...knows better than Chairman Kennedy that even the new form involves the killing of cows for a pint of milk. To obtain a copy of Armour & Co.'s 121-page statement, filed a few weeks ago, an interested investor would have to pay SEC $17.10 in photostatting. Charges-15? per page for the first 100 pages, 110? per page for the rest...
...purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel Pribitchevitch. "The main condition imposed by Germany for co-operation would be Yugoslav acceptance of Austro-German union, which would make Germany our country's neighbor. Germany would obtain hegemony in Central Europe and the Balkans and only a crazy man could believe that Germany would halt at our border. She would continue her march to the Adriatic and Saloniki and Yugoslavia would become her vassal...