Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black Diamond Steamship Co. NLRB has jurisdiction over marine labor (which U. S. Maritime Commission would like to rule...
...dreams of a great unified, Arab Near Eastern State-so carefully fostered by Great Britain's warrior-statesmen in 1914-18-were wrecked in the subsequent peace treaties by European "divide-&-rule" policies. Men like Lawrence of Arabia believed, led the Arabs to believe, that with the defeat of Turkey and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire one great homogeneous Arab nation of essentially the same race, same religion, same culture, would stretch from the southern borders of the Anatolian plateau to the fantastically shaped rocks of Aden...
...spend the rest of their time doing gymnastics to develop muscles and low hurdles to perfect their stride. But modest Dean Cromwell insists his success is due to the Grade A material he gets from Southern California high schools, where 6-ft. high jumps and 9.8 hundreds are the rule rather than the exception...
...down-faced card, the Duke experimenters claim that he has a "chance expectation" of five "hits" or correct guesses in a deck of 25. Therefore, when a guesser averages eight, seven or even six hits over a long run, Rhine claims that these scores are high enough to rule out chance. Some of his opponents have claimed that he does not know the mathematics of probability well enough to make such a statement. Perhaps, they hint, if two enormous stacks of ESP cards were matched against each other, one card after another, an average of six or seven hits...
...Approved the New York Stock Exchange's extension of SEC's rules on short-selling to odd as well as round lots. In January, SEC forbade short sales except at a price at least | of a point above the last transaction; odd lots-less than 100 shares-were specifically exempted. Before long almost a third of all odd-lot business was in short sales. The seven odd-lot firms on the floor agreed that something should be done. The governing committee of the Exchange drew up the new rule one morning, notified SEC at noon, had it approved...