Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of Dr. Gruening," snapped Witness Corcoran, " 'If, as you say, your political situation is such that you are not a free man and have to take the power companies into account . . . you know perfectly well that I can no longer trust your assurance that you will protect the Quoddy relation...
...shares representing control of Public Utilities Securities Corp. were pledged for a $2,000,000 loan from the old Dawes bank in Chicago. Eventually they turned up in the portfolio of Reconstruction Finance Corp. as part of the collateral for the famed $90,000,000 Dawes loan. To protect his investment RFChairman Jesse Jones last March ousted five directors of Public Utilities Securities Corp. including Promoter Clarke, replaced them with his own men. For a few terrifying months it looked to utilitarians as if the Government were going to turn the $300,000,000 power system into a yardstick...
...National Geographic Society, joint sponsors of the flight, some $175,000. Then for a month Captains Orvil A. Anderson and Albert W. Stevens twiddled impatiently, waiting for good weather on high. Last week it came. Joyfully, the camp went to work. Without shoes and wearing cotton gloves to protect the rubbery fabric, 300 soldiers gingerly smoothed out the bag, examined every inch for adhesions. After supper they started valving in gas. Soon the balloon humped in the middle, commenced to rise. By 3 a. m. with all the gas in, the bag was a swaying 300-ft. column glistening...
...chance to prove his protestations that he is not just another Serbian wolf in politician's clothing. Said the new Premier at his debut last week before the Skupshtina: "The last words of Yugoslavia's great martyred King Alexander constitute my Government's program: 'Protect Yugoslavia...
...Coughlin is a great orator but I doubt that he has a sincere atom in his entire system. We Jews have nothing to fear from good Christians. We are their brothers and sisters. But I am afraid of people who pretend to be good Christians. You must unite to protect yourselves...