Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eaton assisting, were able to match their two goals. Seabury scored on a pass from Kite, and Rodd scored the best goal of the afternoon on an unassisted dash. Yale dominated the last ten minutes of play, but continual clearing out and Freedley's goal tending were able to prevent further scoring...
...Another sit-down strike never occurred. In a leather plant at Grand Haven, Mich., 300 workers organized a "stay-in." They did their work by day, slept in the plant by night. The management of the plant did nothing, for the stay-inners were trying to prevent sit-downers from seizing the plant. Said the leader of the stay-inners: "We have nothing to gain from C. I. O. organization here and we have taken steps to make certain that our jobs will not be jeopardized...
...prevent the waste of surplus power, the Bonneville administrator should be empowered to build transmission lines, substations, etc. etc. More than that, he should have a power (which TVA does not have) "to acquire by eminent domain if need be, such real and personal property, franchises, electric transmission lines and facilities as may be necessary"-in short to condemn and take over private facilities...
Result of this was that there was nothing, either in Japan or in the U. S., to prevent the trickle of cheap Japanese cottons from becoming a horrid flood...
...past there have been good guesses on U. S. can statistics but official sales figures have always been a dark secret. American Can got an injunction against SEC to prevent release of its old data but finally capitulated in its 1936 report, out last fortnight. Last week National Can, a subsidiary of McKeesport Tin Plate and No. 3 U. S. can maker, also revealed its sales. Though Continental's report still omitted the vital figures, it was now possible to fill in most of the hitherto sketchy can picture. Total can production amounted to some $375,000,000. American...