Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenville, S. C. where strikers organized flying squads operating by automobile, dashed from mill to mill, intimidating workers, occasionally breaking in, driving out workers, smashing windows, sometimes machinery. Net result: 300 mills closed in North and South Carolina. Secondary result: Governors of both states called out National Guardsmen to protect life and property...
...serious critics of commodity exchanges deny the economic and social value of hedging. Example: a flour miller buys 10,000 bu. of wheat which will not be sold as flour for several months. To protect himself against a decline in wheat (and flour) prices he simultaneously sells 10,000 bu. for future delivery. While he is milling his wheat, the price drops and with it flour. Thus he makes no money on the flour he sells. But having sold wheat short, he now buys in 10,000 bu. to even up his short position, making a profit on the transaction...
...announcing this transfer last month, the Treasury had talked as if it were afraid of California earthquakes. San Franciscans, touchy as ever about their $500,000,000 "fire" in 1906, preferred to believe that the gold was being taken inland to protect it against possible Japanese invasion or to clear the way for the construction of a new mint...
Hitler. Protestant and Catholic journals in Germany last week were apprehensive as to the spread of the pagan movement. Undoubtedly confined at present to the wild fringe of the Realmleaders followers, it nonetheless caused churchmen to wonder if Hitler can and will make good his promise to protect "the two great Christian confessions." Possibly he feels that by its very nature and because he refrains from abetting it, paganism will not spread dangerously far. In any case he did not deign to mention it in his Coblenz speech (see p. 20). Repeating his promises and explaining that...
Fernanda is discovered by Woodruff lying on her bed, shot through the temple. A pearl-handled revolver is on the floor. Her diamonds are missing. The verdict is suicide. But it is some time later before Woodruff, convinced that Susannah Crawford has killed Fernanda to protect her husband, her home and herself, learns the truth about the suicide...