Word: suspending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commission, backed by Minister of Instruction Edouard Herriot, has remained obstinate. Finally last week Cinema Censor Hays let his anger mount and began to threaten. He announced that he had booked passage for the U. S., and that upon the day he sailed the U. S. film industry would suspend all business in the French market. The potency of this threat lay in the fact that France does not yet produce sufficient cinema dramas to supply even one-third of her own demand. Therefore if the U. S. film industry boycotted France some 8,000 French cinema theatre employes would...
...nine years. This program was chiefly one of replacement but pacific citizens objected so strenuously that the bill was scrapped last month by the House Naval Affairs Committee and replaced by a 16-ship program to cost only some $264,000,000, reserving to the President the power to suspend construction in case of another international disarmament conference. The House received this bill last fortnight but it had to wait its turn to be debated...
...corner exists when no more stock is offered for sale against heavy bidding for an hour or more. The Stock Exchange authorities then suspend trading in the stock and settlement is arranged on a "reasonable" price basis fixed by the Stock Exchange governors, usually near the last price of sale. This is a modern humane contrivance. Formerly cornered shorts were forced to pay up to their limit of solvency...
...States of America, and in after years they may be as significant to you as your life in this republic of letters. I hope you will improve every opportunity to study and reflect upon America. Its size will baffle you, perhaps, and I am sure you will want to suspend your judgments until you have had some experience with American life, if possible in other parts of America. It is not an easy task for any of us to get accurate and adequate impressions of a country which is not our own. Few men know much about their own country...
...make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee erased from the bill drafted by Secretary Wilbur a clause giving the President authority to suspend building in the event of a naval limitation conference...