Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged with certain violations, such as presenting identical bids, uniform price raises; 2) more careful scrutiny of mergers and interlocking relationships; 3) supervision of investment trusts and gradual separation of banks from holding companies; 4) supervision and publicizing of activities of trade associations; 5) amendment of patent laws to prevent use of patent controls for suppression of new inventions; 6) correction of tax laws to encourage competition and dividend distribution. To top all this the President also suggested that Congress consider creating a Bureau of Industrial Economics, modeled on the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, to keep business informed on supply...
...Absolute secrecy was essential," Sir John said, "to prevent prices from being raised by knowledge [among food sellers] of the Government coming into the market. Had it been known, of course, the effect on prices would have been disadvantageous to consumers generallv as well as to the Government." That U. S. wheatmen have not been asking much as they would have asked had n Sir John and Mr. Chamberlain been secretive, and by the same token U. S. citizens have not had to pay as much for wheat and bread as otherwise would have been the case...
...best (1,200,000 volumes), announced that all non-Aryan books would be burned. In Williamstown, Mass., a group of Williams College students, including a grandson of Woodrow Wilson and the editor of the college paper, promptly cabled an offer to buy all the banned books to prevent their being burned. Brooklyn's Borough President Raymond Ingersoll cabled that Brooklyn's public library would be glad to have them, offered to pay transportation costs...
...inter-House group, composed of the seven House Committee chairmen, was inaugurated last fall to apportion dates for the House dances, and to prevent conflicts. The success of the Committee in this direction has been very mild. Four possible conflicts, it is true, have been averted on the Committee's behalf. But at Christmas time the first major conflict occurred when Winthrop held a dance the same night as did Kirkland. Since then the Inter-House Committee has been inactive, with the possible consequence that supervision of House dances will pass into higher hands...
...morphine which Dr. Wassermann injected into helpless Marion Garey was less to deaden pain, which the man no longer felt, than to prevent him from collapsing from shock. After giving the morphine, the doctor applied a tourniquet, cut through the flesh of the broken leg, applying hemostats to the blood vessels he severed. He had no need to saw the bones; they were broken through. Twelve minutes after the morphine injection...