Word: protection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientists, who sailed March 29 in quest of the headwaters of the Orinoco. Walter Hinton, naval lieutenant who once flew the NC4 across the Atlantic, and James W. Swanson, radio expert, are members of the party. Hinton will take along a big seaplane for aerial exploration and to protect the expedition against the cannibals of the region by bombing, if necessary. Previous experiences of the Rices dictated this precaution. Swanson will establish a complete broadcasting and receiving station, WJS, at Boa Vista, on the upper Rio Branco, in Brazil, near British Guiana...
...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 the Government's oil from drainage into private wells nearby. Mr. Doheny...
...false quotations. He said that "bear" gamblers had fallen into the trap and that the franc was persecuted on exchange in London, New York, Amsterdam, Vienna, Milan. In time the movement was reflected in Paris, by wide dumping of National Defense Bonds and "short" selling by importers to protect themselves from the falling exchange...
Thus the A. T. & T. had the most complete natural monopoly until recent inventions made it possible to broadcast long distance without the use of wires for relaying. The Company then brought suit against the independent companies in order to "stabilize the industry," in other words to protect its patent rights on vacuum tubes, modulators, amplifiers. It hopes to prevent broadcasting from stations not equipped or licensed by the A. T. & T. There are some 400 of the latter, as against 50 controlled by it. Evidence is accumulating, however, that the real fight will be between...
...that it has not attempted and does not desire a monopoly of broadcasting; that broadcasting should be regulated by the Federal Government; that the company will grant rights under its patents for reasonable compensation to licensed stations; that its suit against WHN (TIME, March 17) was brought solely to protect its patents from infringement. The company also offered to lease its patents during their life to any licensed broadcasting station...