Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separated and shielded from each other as girls' and boys' dormitories in a State University. If a representative from either mail house appears to see how things are going, he is admitted only with a plant chaperone to make sure he does not stray out of bounds. Scrap paper and trial pages from the presses are impounded lest prices, layouts or even ideas fall into the wrong hands. Now that the forms are closed and the catalogs are on the presses this precious rubbish can be sold as waste paper. Because of all this mummery publicity...
...obtained before any of the plans bear fruit. Part & parcel of the financial proposals are straight business agreements wrhich will benefit all three companies. The when & how of these plans were as vague as Joe Schenck's financial details but the eventual effects were fairly clear. Gaumont will scrap its U. S. distributing organization at a saving of at least $500,000 annually. In return M-G-M and Twentieth Century-Fox will market Gaumont pictures not only in the U. S. but in nearly all countries of the world except Britain. There Gaumont will absorb...
...army to shed tears could not drive them out of the house? There were souvenir hunters there the following day picking up cartridges, etc., but we civilized people believe in respecting the dead even if colored, crazy desperadoes, and especially after having put up such a crazy hot scrap as those...
...trees can be raised for another year or two until of suitable age for planting out. For about 50? per 1,000 they can be packed and shipped. To plant them would cost $86 per 1,000. The conference quickly decided not to scrap the 60,000,000 seedlings, but not to go to the expense of planting them. Instead they should be reared to planting age, given as presents to farmers. For this purpose $170,000 was appropriated to wind up the whole tree-strip project on the cheap...
Radicals, in revolt against such a decision, would have us scrap the Constitution or the Court, or both. This extreme solution would doubtlessly create more new problems than it would solve old ones. Still, the wheels of the Constitution are creaking badly. Until "due process" is pried out of the document into which it once crept when no one was watching, both Congress and the legislatures will continue to be irresponsible debating societies, while the nine justices of the Supreme Court carefully carry the key to their padded cell...