Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Exchequer, which is resolved for reasons of trade not to let the dollar become much cheaper than the pound, took steps to weaken its own currency. The means adopted was to sell sterling against francs and these the British Exchange Equalization Fund hastily converted into gold to protect itself against possible devaluation of the franc. During the week over a billion gold francs fled France and it was possible although not yet probable that U. S. fiscal manipulations, which have already shoved China off the silver standard, may become a decisive factor in eventually dislodging France from the gold...
...Last Puritan is called a "memoir in the form of a novel." That is enough of a disclaimer to protect it from the accusation that it is not a novel at all but a profound and beautiful question-mark. It transcends, certainly, any pat classification into which you might try to slip it. The plot, except as a mere framework or skeleton on which the study of character hangs, is completely inconsequential. It could have developed a dozen different ways in a dozen different places without affecting the story's main interest, and this is its weakness as the plot...
...buckle six-shooters about our waists." "Don't go out and quibble over the evidence," roared the young county prosecutor who was helping Prosecutor Knight. "Say to yourselves: 'We're tired of this job' and put it behind you. Get it done quick and protect the fair womanhood of this great State." The defense was for the protection of womanhood, too, but also asked for "the protection of the innocent...
Union Carbide & Carbon, dragged into the Gauley Bridge affair by its toes, declared that it was "very proud of its safety record everywhere." President P. H. Faulconer of Rinehart & Dennis asserted that "every known device to protect the workers was used and that reports of deaths were grossly exaggerated...
...long trial, which investigated every detail of the catastrophe, the defense maintained that the huge death list was in part due to "an act of God," in part to "a defect" in the ship's construction, that in any case the defendants did all in their power to protect the passengers...