Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...systematically evading the customs duties of North China. One can buy Japanese goods openly in China today at prices less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them. The smugglers swagger about with pistols in their belts, and the Imperial Japanese Government has demanded with success that these "dangerous weapons" be not carried by Chinese customs guards at the frontier posts most convenient for smuggling, such as Shanhaikwan on the Great Wall...
Before the House of Representatives the bill duly came, was passed in toto, by 106-to-43.* Cock-a-hoop with success, "The Savior" strutted about Havana declaring: "We have a two-thirds majority. We can pass the bill over the President's veto...
...Domagk, a chemotherapist, designed Prontosil's complex molecule of dyestuff. After Dye Trust synthetists made it. Dr. Domagk experimented on mice, found that it did not kill them, that it did cure them of streptococcic infections. Other German doctors tried the material on human beings, began to report success in 1935. Last June two London gynecologists reported encouraging results with Prontosil in cases of childbed fever...
Such cheap financing of an industrial concern was a record low in an era of cheap money. Despite its relative obscurity, success of the issue was assured because of Dow's impeccable position in its field. Dow Chemical Co. is not widely known to the public because it does not sell directly to the consumer. For example, Dow sells aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid) by the barrel or sack, lets someone else put an advertised name on the drugstore package. It sticks to the primary manufacture of essential ingredients, lets others make the trade names...
...Lawyer Schenker: ''[It's] a Van Sweringen operation in the investment trust field." After detailing various operations of Equity Corp., Mr. Schenker drew from Mr. Milton testimony about the formation of Merton Shares, a Canadian corporation, asked him why he had gone to Canada to insure success in a U. S. transaction. Apologized Mr. Milton: "I don't know, it could perhaps have been done some other way. It was a continual headache...