Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most readers are likely to feel that Economist Chase's remedy is as dubious as his account of the need for its telling. With high praise for the Tennessee Valley Authority, for the Civilian Conservation Corps and other public work projects, he envisions a great campaign to protect U. S. resources that would create five million jobs, stop unemployment and beautify the country as well. For arguments about costs he has shrewd answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic...
...sponsors of this tax law may have thought that it was a smart way to appear to 'soak the rich.' Actually it has no relation to 'soaking the rich.' What it does is protect the big fellow who still has a reserve, and tie a millstone around the neck of the little fellow...
...Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year ago with 128 words a minute...
...female employes, involving them in "compromising situations to induce them to furnish confidential information, documents and designs, irate Philco sought to enjoin & restrain RCA from using "devious methods of trade rivalry. Philco demanded the return of allegedly stolen secrets a settlement for "substantial expense and damage in endeavoring to protect its business and property from RCA depredations...
...pandering to the common interest in blood pressure. On the Boardwalk he set up a sphygmomanometer including a regular cuff and bulb. An overlarge dial was blatantly labeled "Blood Pressure Indicator for SYSTOLIC PRESSURE." For 10? passers-by were invited to "READ YOUR OWN BLOOD PRESSURE."* To protect himself from the serious charge of practicing medicine without a license, Concessionaire Males set up big signs reading: "Attendant is forbidden to diagnose, prescribe or treat under any circumstances. The only purpose of this (non-stethoscope) machine is to let you read your own blood pressure, and nothing else. For a true...