Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ryti's advice to businessmen is: "Protect yourselves. Undersell the Russians...
Just before 2 a. m. Arthur Reynolds of Continental Illinois bank announced that First National Bank of Chicago would take over the assets of the Foreman institutions. To protect First National against loss, the Clearing House guaranteed a $10,000,000 indemnity fund, Foreman stockholders posted an additional $2,550,000. Yet even so the deal required courage and hero of the conference was Melvin Alvah Traylor, First National's able & active president. After the deal, First National will have resources of $883,000,000, ranking it as second in Chicago to only the $1,122,000,000 Continental...
...families can only be stopped by individual precautions; such crimes as portrait slashings, which can only be the work of an insane man, are impossible to foresee and almost as difficult to trace, while their prevention involves procedure far too impractical. In a similar way, any further measures to protect the treasures of libraries and museums must unavoidably entail "red tape" which may even outweigh the saving. Yet the point of least loss and inconvenience can only be reached after experimentation towards both extremes. Present regulations have apparently proved unsatisfactory; a period of stricter protective care seems the only solution...
...President von Hindenburg produced and read his christening address. "And now glide down into your element and join the ocean!" read HINDENBURG, a hero so great that no one snickered. "Do your duty there! May it be to give proof of German work and German efficiency and to protect the Fatherland. Always keep your flag clean and high in honor! Then you will be worthy of the name which I give you-Deutschland...
...completed in readiness for the opening of college in the fall, no definite date can be set for the completion of the telescope, since it will depend not only upon the time spent on the instrumental itself, but also upon the construction of a small building to protect it from the weather