Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between 1865, the year after he married Laura Spelman, a Cleveland schoolteacher, and 1872, he evolved and put into prompt practice the basic principle on which Standard Oil achieved its power- buy out competitors at pistol point or destroy them if they refuse to sell. Monopoly of oil was his objective almost from the start. The pistol he used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate...
Because Coach Jaako Mikkola wants the use of the track on Tuesday, the Inter-House track meet has been rescheduled for today, May 24, and will start at 2:30. All contestants are requested to be prompt so that the meet may be run off on schedule. All those who did not compete in the Yale meet on Saturday are eligible. The order of running events is as follows: 100 yd. dash; 440 yd. run; 220 yd. dash; 120 yd. low hurdles; 880 yd. run; and medley relay, consisting of two 110 yd. legs...
There is but one condition under which the symptoms described with the prompt restoration of sight are found. It is often characterized by the numbness referred to either in the legs or other parts of the body. It is known as psychic or mind blindness. It is purely a mental and functional condition in which no organic structural change is present. It is not even a very uncommon condition and no one thinks of treating it in any other way than by influencing the mind of the victim of this obsession...
...overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
...chairman. John J. O'Connor of New York, lunched off a Presidential tray. "The President did not mention Sit-Downs to me," said Chairman O'Connor when he left the White House. A few hours later his Committee astounded Washington by reporting out the Dies resolution for prompt House action. "I don't predict what action the House may take," said Speaker Bankhead, "but admittedly there is strong opposition to Sit-Down strikes on the part of the membership." That sentiment, if unchecked, promised the incredible spectacle of John L. Lewis following the path of bankers, stockbrokers...