Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conservation-propagandizing cartoons. He hopes the proceeds from the stamp sale will help fatten all the wild ducks in the land. Said he last week: "No one is under any obligation to kill a duck just because he owns a Federal hunting stamp, nor is there any rule to prevent a man who wants to help restore the migratory waterfowl from purchasing several of these duck-saving stamps. Every dollar will be devoted to the cause of conservation...
...Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary to existing law. . . . The Minister of Economics may punish failure to obey his rulings with imprisonment or fines. There is no limit to the size of the fine...
...private management. If capital is not subscribed within two years, or if no merger with a solvent institution can be arranged, FDIC is authorized to place the new bank in voluntary liquidation, wind up its affairs. East Peoria, whose Caterpillar Tractor Co. foundry was last week closed down to prevent warfare between workers and strike pickets, has not suffered unduly from Depression. But once before, in 1927, the bank was forced to close temporarily when the cashier's accounts were short $192,000?more than 75% of the total deposits at the time. The stock-holders made up the deficit...
...today as unsafe for peaceful merchantmen as the Spanish Main or the Barbary Coast ever were. Because Chinese pirates often disguise themselves as passengers, ships plying in those dangerous waters are fitted with "anti-piracy grilles" that screen off the deck-passengers from the rest of the vessel, prevent surprise attacks. Until last year, piracy was unknown along China's northern coast. Then one March morning pirate junks attacked the British-owned coasting steamer Nanchang, waiting for a pilot off the mouth of the Liao River. Contrary to all rules, four British officers were captured, three of them held...
Observers wondered if the law would prevent a perfume advertiser from spraying his newspaper copy with scent, as did one enterprising perfumer nearly 20 years ago in Humboldt County, California. Copies of that edition of the Eureka Humboldt Standard reeked for months afterward...