Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superpower is too rich a plum to give to one station in a competitive business, asked for equal power. Smaller stations, which could not afford to build and maintain superpower transmitters even if they could secure licenses, feared that the penetration of 500-kw. voices into their territory would steal their business, wanted no station to have such power...
...showing the operations of the spy net which G-men and U. S. Attorney Lamar Hardy have been trying to net since February (TIME, May 30). The hunt began when an American Army deserter of Austrian parentage, brush-headed Guenther Gustave Rumrich, was arrested in a clumsy attempt to steal passport blanks. He promptly implicated several German-Americans in attempts to steal Army aircraft designs and military secrets. Five days after looking at the chart, the Grand Jury returned indictments in the most serious charges of espionage ever made by the U. S. against a friendly power...
Chicago hopes to steal New York's thunder through a rule limiting futures trading to hides not more than one year old (the younger a hide is, the better most manufacturers like it). In New York, trading in five-year-old hides is permitted. Effect of Chicago's restrictions was evident in last week's prices. Sample: September hides in Chicago were 8.79? a lb., in New York 8.58?. These prices are only about half what hides were bringing last year, for consumption of tanned leather was off 25% in the first four months this year. Despite...
...value, that Directors Harcourt Morgan & Lilienthal nevertheless tried to have a conciliator to decide the value of the Berry claims; that not until evidence of bad faith by Berry & Partners was unearthed during condemnation proceedings were the claims finally declared worthless and the Government saved from a "bare-faced" steal...
...whose Chief Justice would look Jovian in a rumble seat. They tangled from the beginning of the Great Court Battle, when Henry Agard Wallace charged that in ordering the return of $200,000,000 of AAA's invalidated processing taxes, the Supreme Court had authorized "the greatest legal steal in history." Since then the Court has come to terms with most of the organic law of the New Deal. But by last week there were signs that the Court fight was passing into a second stage, not over the drafting of New Deal law but over its administration. There...