Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal District Court at Los Angeles, the special counsel for the Government obtained a temporary injunction on the Doheny companies to prevent them from operating their leases. The charges made were much the same as those of the Teapot Dome complaint. Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau and J. Crampton Anderson, President of the Pan-American Petroleum Co., were named joint receivers. In order to protect the Government's naval and oil interests as well as the interests of the lessee, the receivers were empowered to carry out the existing contracts, and to drill additional wells, if necessary to protect...
...been the custom in debates in Cambridge this year, there will be no consultation between the judges prior to their rendering a decision. This is done in order to prevent a complimentary unanimous vote being given when one of the three judges may have disagreed. The audience will also vote, and while their ballots are being counted, the chairman will give a brief speech...
...work nine hours a day, the proprietors of the Baden Aniline Dye Works at Ludwigshafen and Oppau dismissed 20,000 of their workers. At Hamburg, the City Fathers invented "beggars' bonds" which charitably inclined persons are to give to mendicants instead of cash. The idea is to prevent the professional beggar from earning more than he deserves. Each bondholder will have his past looked into before the Municipality parts with any cash...
...circular states: "Thousands of our brethren in the faith have lost all hope; thousands have left the fold of the Church. Germany is being crushed by a nation of another faith. Shall Lutheranism be crushed in the land where it was born? We have an effective weapon to prevent this...
...Great areas of the sky will be "mined" by hundreds of captive balloons, from which huge nets will be hung, the system extending to a height of three miles. Above these "mines," to a further height of nearly six miles, a complete vertical barrage of bursting shells will "prevent any aviator coming through alive." Smoke screens of such proportions as to form veritable clouds will help to confuse the invader. Yet higher squadrons, equipped with new types of planes, will patrol the air "at altitudes which service machines have never yet attained...