Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careful tending before it yields a good crop of cocoa beans. In West Africa where one-third of the world's crop is harvested, native growers put in an AAA; of their own in 1930 and 1931. Rather than sell at Depression prices they let hundreds of acres revert to jungle, planted no new trees which would be bearing...
...Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing and wasting" any of their refunded tax. Plaintiff Reiskind, a lawyer, conceded that a prorata rebate to all consumers would be impossible, thought that the money should revert to the U. S. Treasury. Meanwhile the Chicago butchers charged that the packers had passed along their tax in the form of higher meat prices. The butchers claimed that as they had, in effect, paid the taxes, it was to them that the refund should go. Many processors sold processed...
...after Mrs. Hewitt I obtained a divorce. By the terms of his will, Mrs. Hewitt II receives one-third of the income from a $1,300,000 trust fund, Ann Hewitt two-thirds-the daughter's share to pass to her children, if any, or to revert to her mother if she should die childless. In San Francisco last week Daughter Hewitt brought suit for $500,000 damages against Mother Hewitt, two physicians and a State psychologist. She charged that her mother, greedy for the whole trust fund income, had had her sterilized. From the fantastic miasma of charges...
...four fields, a student might choose two, and under tutorial guidance make a complete and invigorating study of those. In place of the H. G. Wells "Outline of History" aspect of the past and present the student would achieve genuine knowledge from his work in concentration, and scholarship would revert more nearly to its true meaning...
...first act in the tragedy, one must revert to the Secret Treaties of London in 1915, and the failure of Britain and France in 1919 to live up to their promises. The second act took place in Rome, the first week of this year, when M. Laval, either intentionally or unintentionally, let Mussolini understand that France would not intervene in an Italian campaign against Ethiopia. The third act, of longer duration, is spread over the nine months of this year, and is marked by the consistent failure of the Powers to realize that Mussolini has meant business all along...