Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tender-hearted Adolf Hitler's first acts after he became Chancellor in 1933 was to declare the northmost end of Sylt Island in the North Sea a "bird sanctuary." Last week the hardy islanders, who for long months have ably kept their mouths shut, decided that the secret of Sylt no longer need be kept, what with Realmleader Hitler blustering about the parts he is assembling into new naval armaments in violation of the Treaty of Versailles...
Subject to both uses and abuses, patents are granted on the theory that, in return for making a full and complete disclosure of his secret, an inventor is entitled to the exclusive right to make, use and sell it for 17 years. To be patentable, inventions must fall within one of six different classes of subject matter: 1) an art or process, 2) a machine, 3) an article of manufacture, 4) a composition of matter, 5) a plant asexually reproduced other than a tuber-propagated plant, 6) a new and ornamental design. It takes at least three months...
...declared that Frank Parish and the stock-selling company he organized to sing the praises of Mo-Kan securities had used company money to manipulate the stock. That was the" real reason for Mo-Kan's downfall, said the prosecutor, who added that Frank Parish & wife had taken secret profits of $950,000 in stock manipulations...
...Emanuel Rosenbaum had timed his movements skillfully. He knew the Board of Trade must sooner or later carry out its rules which call for suspension of any member unable to meet his obligations. When President Boylan of the Board of Trade summoned the Board's directors to a secret meeting, they found Mr. Rosenbaum one jump ahead of them. He had secured an injunction to restrain the Board from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market. But Mr. Boylan...
...short side. Liquidation would not dump quantities of grain on the market at once. By agreement with the banks, who had most of Manny Rosenbaum's spot grain as collateral, the Board of Trade Clearing House selected a group of independent brokers (whose names were kept secret) to close out the Rosenbaum open contracts privately. Within a half hour after the market opened. President Boylan proudly announced that the job had been done. The liquidation was accomplished with a net loss for the day of only 1? in the price of wheat...