Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant I. G. Farbenindustrie, German dye trust. Indicted
last winter with several U.S. companies for violating the antitrust
laws in the magnesium industry, officials refused to appear, contending
they were not doing business as a U.S. corporation. The Attorney
General claimed that the seizure (timed with expected receipt of
$250,000 due I. G. Farbenindustrie that same day for license fees from
U.S. firms) would compel the dye trust to appear before a U.S. court if it
wanted to protest, w
...great Dean Swift made his famed "Modest Proposal" for curing the economic ills of Ireland: sell its starving children as dressed meat. Last week U. S. book reviewers were in receipt of a modern modest proposal. No less grisly than the Dean's, it was not even supposed to be ironic...
...have some more Japanese music," "Why is Göring so fat and the rest of the Germans so thin?" While wags had a field day with the cables, R. C. A. offices reported a land-office business. But at week's end the Nazis acknowledged the receipt of only 5,000 telegrams, at which point their offer was "temporarily" withdrawn...
...College Observatory reported receipt of a radiogram Friday from Dr. John S. Paraskevopoulos, Superintendent of the Boyden Station of the Harvard College Observatory, in Bloemfontain, South Africa, announcing discovery of a naked eye comet of the third magnitude, having a tall of five degrees (objects of magnitude six or less are visible to the naked...
...whose angels of mercy have Falange (fascist) symbols embroidered on their aprons (see cut p. 19), the Red Cross will send six U. S. experts to supervise the job and each Spanish agency distributing Red Cross food will be held responsible for the food it receives, must sign a receipt for each case it serves. To put all parties, including Nazis, on their best behavior, to make future U. S. aid contingent on honest handling of this first consignment, the Red Cross agreed with the British that further development of the program depends on the fulfillment of the terms under...