Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their upholding the Government would calm the economic world, they were mistaken. In every market there was turmoil-orders to buy, buy, buy and few or none to sell. Within 15 minutes the Chicago Board of Trade, the grain markets of St. Louis and Kansas City were closed to prevent a buying panic. The New Orleans' Cotton Exchange stayed open and the price of cotton jumped $1 a bale. The New York Stock Exchange likewise continued to function, although the ticker fell eleven minutes behind sales. The stock of the Baltimore & Ohio-the gold clause of whose bonds...
Eastern Locarno: Germany is invited to participate in a "general settlement" embracing i) Germany's return to the League of Nations; 2) Germany's adherence to an Eastern Locarno Pact to prevent aggression in either direction across Germany's eastern frontiers; 3) acceptance by the Great Powers of Germany's present degree of rearmament even though it flatly violates the Treaty of Versailles...
...have time and space to train their dogs. More interesting to breeders than last week's races is the National Coursing meet run semiannually at Abilene, Kans. for the purpose of testing speed and stamina. Short-lived, delicate, savage as wolves, greyhounds wear muzzles when they run to prevent them from biting each other to death. Extracting the live hare, traditional coursing quarry, does not decrease the cruelty of the sport. Greyhounds are taught to pursue mechanical rabbits by developing a thirst for the blood of real ones...
Harvard organizations swung into action on two fronts yesterday as the National Student League moved to uphold the Uneeda Biscuit workers' strike in New York and the Liberal Club sought to prevent the passage in the State Legislature of an anti-Communist bill...
...following statement was made by assistant professor Harris: "On the whole, I think the decision is a desirable one in that it will prevent a good deal of disturbance. I think that it is perfectly possible to interpret the question within the Constitution, since Congress is given the right to determine the value of money; and in order to do this, it is important to determine the debt-paying power of money...