Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retail food distribution, but we do undertake to express our opinion that the organization as now conducted, possesses the potentiality of a control of retail food distribution to such an extent as to threaten the best interests of the American public. Is Federal control of that organization in prospect? Will the conduct of chain stores generally be such within the next few years as to bring about such a degree of 'cooperation' and 'understanding' among the largest ones as to attract the eye and attention of the Department of Justice...
...railroads for the late Emperor Kwang-Hsü of China. He introduced U. S. methods to Kyshtym in South Russia, making an oldtime estate of the Romanovs' into a mining centre where young Russian engineers soon pilgrimaged to complete their education. Italy engaged Engineer Hoover one summer to prospect in the Alps for the iron old Romans must have used for their swords.* Engineer Hoover and his brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover (who lives in Swanton, Calif.), perfected and installed a method for recovering zinc from the dumps of Australian lead and silver mines. In Burma, Engineer Hoover bought...
...they feel obliged to fight for his ideas on legislation. Last week, following the President's message of renunciation to Wyoming (TIME, April 2), the three biggest bones of contention between the Administration and Congress-Tax Reduction, Muscle Shoals, Farm Relief-appeared more contentious than ever and the prospect of three vetoes increased. Also, the House passed a far smaller Navy bill than the Administration had asked. Also, the Senate passed a Flood Control measure in which local contributions, as urged by the President, were only "recognized in principle," not levied in fact...
...Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could put in. The oilfields he obtained this way soon brought Sinclair Consolidated's holdings...
...therefore appeases his soul and enlivens his sad spirit not a little when he considers the prospect of being soothed by Arthur Honegger's symphonic psalm "King David" which the Glee Club is singing in Symphony Hall tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...