Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the British Government had been saying that it would give India self-government when India's conflicting parties could agree. Last week Government spokesmen were still putting it up to the Indians. Said Colonial Secretary Lord Cranborne: "If the Indian leaders would get together and devise some scheme which would be satisfactory to all, the Indian problem would be satisfactorily solved." Said Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax: "We are anxious and prepared to do our part, but . . . they first must conquer the fundamental difficulty, that of unification between the Hindu and Moslem parties...
...advertised as a defense course, but it is only casually connected with the other branches of Civilian Defense, which are brought together by the A.R.P. training course. Courses in bandaging and artificial respiration have been started in all the Houses, but the lack of an overall organizational scheme has forced each House group to carry on under its own power as best...
...number of them) without GHQ approval, the 13 chiefs can mobilize a lot of idle plants if they want to. Not planes and tanks, but the hundreds of supply items needed for Army arsenals, armories and the Aberdeen Proving Ground make up most of their orders. The new scheme is designed less to promote subcontracting than to find more and smaller prime contractors for these simpler products. But in the course of meeting and coaching the little men in its district, each civilian ordnance staff can help the big suppliers find subcontractors...
...York Stock Exchange tried out a new scheme to get more business last week, and it worked. The scheme: "special offerings," by which big blocks of listed stocks, ordinarily sold off the exchange floor, can be lured back to the ticker...
First test of this scheme was 2,958 shares of Bon Ami Co. B stock, an inactive issue. Last week, just 103 minutes trading time after the first ticker-tape notice flashed in U.S. brokerage offices, the last share was sold. To Stott, this was full proof that the Big Board can handle almost any stock-selling job. To the seller, it meant a big saving in commissions. Off-the-board commissions would have been around $6,000; commissions under the special offerings plan were $3,163-only 2.86% of the $110,555 deal. Thus, in effect, Mr. Stott...