Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them that the shift caused the ship to list heavily to port. These men were loaded secretly at Shanghai; when they were carried off the vessel at Kobe, the passengers were forced to go to the other side of the ship, which had its top decks roped off to prevent any of the passengers from viewing the unloading, which took all of two hours...
...President said that the pressure of official responsibilities would prevent him from holding office or taking an active part in the foundation, but hinted that he might like to become its head after leaving the White House. The Foundation's personnel was not disclosed last week, but it was generally supposed that Keith Morgan and Basil O'Connor, both top men at Warm Springs, would occupy high posts...
...therapists convened in Cincinnati last week Dr. Hansson described a machine designed by himself and his associate which pumps blood out of one arm, irradiates it with germicidal ultraviolet rays, puts it back in the other arm. Citrate of sodium introduced into the blood as it leaves the vein prevents coagulation. ''It is for the future," said Dr. Hansson, "to show what can be accomplished. One difficulty in experiments was that we didn't know the safe amount of radiation to give the patient. Another was to prevent loss of heat in the blood. This was overcome...
...barreled effect in shooting up the prices of commodities. First, the bonds serve to expand credit and to increase the amount of paper money in circulation. Secondly, the need for financing the deficit calls for easy money and the avoidance of those checks on credit expansion which might prevent an abnormal rise in commodity prices. . . . If past experience in this country and abroad were still of any significance, and if our affairs were not in the hands of a genius of unparalleled resourcefulness, I should expect commodity prices to go up at least another 50% or so, with some zigzags...
...invisible corn out of the hat, gave Cargill a severe drubbing as the price fell 27?. Last week brokers suspected that Cargill was out to get even. However, there was little chance that a serious squeeze would materialize, for the Secretary of Agriculture has power to extend trading to prevent such things. Last week the Commodity Exchange Administration was visibly disturbed, uttered warnings about manipulation and presently the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House Association doubled the margins on September corn (from 4? to 8?) to discourage new speculation. At week's end longs reluctantly liquidated enough corn...