Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has come nearest to unanimous approval has been the resolve 'It must not happen again.' The determination to prevent the recurrence of wild booms and profound depressions has motivated some of the Administration's best work. . . . Now the Administration proposes a tax plan which, tosses overboard this sound philosophy. . . . The proposal is to prevent the accumulation of corporate surpluses by a prohibitive tax of about 33⅓%. The principle is unsound. It is analogous to levying a prohibitive tax upon individual life insurance premiums. Surpluses are the life insurance policies of business firms. . . . To force industry...
...money is invested in stocks and bonds and mortgages and we know when to throw something overboard and when to buy something new. Some of the biggest men in the country are Presbyterians.* They let us know when things are shaky or when they are going to be good...
...Province of Alberta is "contrary to the North America Act" which is the fundamental law of Canada's Constitution. Being unconstitutional it should present the Government of Alberta with insuperable problems leading to a stalemate. Last week this thought kept holders of Alberta bonds from dumping them overboard. All Canada's great banks and nationally spread industries held emergency directors' meetings. Rich Albertans, as soon as election returns were known, began rapidly transferring their funds from the province to Montreal and Toronto...
Four days later they learned that the ketch Hamrah had dropped anchor at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Of her crew of six, three young New Englanders survived. They told how, eleven days out of Newport, her socialite owner and skipper, Robert R. Ames, had been washed overboard in a boiling mid-Atlantic sea. His Son Richard went after him with a line, was followed by Son Harry in a boat, which capsized. With Hamrah partly disabled, the survivors hove to for two days. Then Charles Tillinghast Jr. took the helm, managed to remember how to lay a course by a sextant...
...famed old Southern Cross to fly the stormy Tasman Sea to Wellington, N. Z. Halfway across, the starboard propeller broke off, part of a motor fell into the sea. With the other two motors sputtering, the ship lost altitude rapidly. Sir Charles threw 14,000 lb. of freight overboard, then 34,000 pieces of Jubilee mail. When the Southern Cross continued falling, Sir Charles sent out an SOS, added: "Port motor gone now. . . . Afraid...