Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backers to "take it easy and play it safe." Sorriest mishap of Mattern's flight across the steppes occurred east of Omsk when a fuel line in his Lockheed plane broke. Dizzy and nauseated from breathing gas fumes. Pilot Mattern set his ship down at the coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk, completed repairs. For the treacherous 2,600-mi. hop from Khabarovsk across the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Bering Sea to Nome. Pilot Mattern steeled himself...
Neglected year after year, lackeys proudly dusted it off and filled it to the brim. Rapidly losing her appetite for war after the assassination of pugnacious President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. Peru had agreed to accept the League formula for the settlement of her undeclared war with Colombia over the seizure of Leticia last September. The settlement...
...local licensing board, any may vary from twenty-five to five hundred dollars. Since each House must obtain a separate license, it is obvious that the cost would be prohibitive if the fee were set at the latter figure. Actually, there is no reason why an amicable settlement in this matter cannot be reached. If the University restricted the consumption of its matter cannot be reached. If the University restricted the consumption of its beer to the dining halls, it would materially reduce any competition with local merchants; this favor could be returned by the Cambridge authorities in the form...
...distributed within the College, while the rest are distributed to needy individuals and charitable institutions around Boston. The books are added to the P. B. H. Loan Library, and are rented during the year. Magazines are given to the Seaman's Institute and other organizations requesting them. The Settlement Houses in Boston receive most of the athletic equipment donated by the students...
...were also involved in a deal in which Old Man Ridley was duped into assigning to them and Weinstein $210,000 through the transfer of funds to three dummy corporations. Police had not yet connected Hoffman and Goodman to the double murder. Meantime, Ridley relatives prepared to sue for settlement of the $4,000,000 estate...