Word: stave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill, introduced in Congress on Nov. 23, would add weight to their petition. Under its terms a bankrupt railroad whose average earnings for seven years have covered its fixed charges can be taken out of the courts, handed back to its stockholders. The Milwaukee's stockholders hoped to stave off approval of the reorganization until they had a chance of preserving their investment...
...President's plan was based on the Railway Labor Disputes Act, which has worked successfully to stave off labor trouble on the railroads for 19 years. It called for the establishment of a fact-finding commission-probably three members-who would investigate any major strike on the President's orders. The commission would have power to subpoena all books and records; it would report directly to the President...
...keeper of Bug Light, finally retired to salt-bleached solitude on an outer harbor island. By waterfront legend, he was one of the pirates who had ravaged the West Indies early in the 19th Century, had come to the U.S. from Canada after murdering a man with a barrel stave. The King died in 1882 without discussing the matter...
...highest praise to Mauldin, one of the great reporters of this war, whose efforts may conceivably help stave off future conflict...
...sharp reputation for circumventing the restrictions of the Allied Control Commissions. His own politics were opportunistic. Democracy, he said, "is a luxury that might be borne, perhaps, in prosperous periods." He backed Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg and his fascist Home Guard, bet on Dollfuss and Mussolini to stave off Hitler. In 1937 he saw the handwriting on the wall, deftly transferred his holdings abroad...