Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State shall protect Labor, regulate the relations between landlords and tenants, between Labor and Capital and may provide for compulsory arbitration...
Said Chairman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt of the Whist Club's Committee on Rules: "These new figures are not as nearly in accord with the laws of chance as were the old, but the change was made to protect the pocketbook of the loser...
...have been watching with great interest the fight being waged against public utility holding company legislation. I have watched the use of investors' money to make the investor believe that the efforts of government to protect him are designed to defraud him. I have seen much of the propaganda . . . to exploit the most far-fetched and fallacious fears . . . enough to be as unimpressed by it as I was by the similar effort to stir up the country against the Securities Exchange bill last spring...
...When the public has invested its money in studios, we then have a very definite guarantee that to protect their own interests they will not permit detrimental legislation. . . . Civic-minded contributors are mostly desired. . . . We want to move to Florida if we are guaranteed security. . . . Florida will benefit tremendously. . . . The Hollywood companies spend $150,000,000 a year...
Last week oil returned to market when the New York Commodity Exchange inaugurated trading in crude oil and gasoline futures, giving oil traders a chance to protect themselves against price changes by hedging. Selected as the basic oil for exchange contracts was mid-continent crude of 36 gravity which has been quoted at $1 per bbl. since September 1933. Sales for the first day were 14,000 bbl. at from $1.18 for July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold...