Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief effects of the final changes were two: 1) to limit the life of the new Flood Control Board, by referring to the Mississippi River Commission instead of to the Board the proposed survey of the river's tributaries, a task which will take many years; 2) to lessen the Government's liability for damages and expenses by specifying that damage claims are not retroactive and providing that the U. S. need not buy flowage rights over lands which the river now floods naturally. The face cost of the bill remained...
...bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand how the Standard Oil Co. was formed with a capital of $1,000,000 in 1870 when Mr. Rockefeller...
...support of his project, Mr. Hahn also said: "The vitality of the chain idea has been demonstrated in the success of great chains of stores in specialty lines. The attempt to weld department stores into efficient and economical chains probably will prove a much more difficult task than has been the case in specialty lines, but the opportunity is there and the problems which accompany it will be solved...
...when the old Gore Hall was being torn down and Widener being erected, Mr. Lane had the task of personally supervising the storing and transferring of the volumes during the operations. He had to know where each volume was all the time in order that the books might be used as much as possible even while in storage...
Sometimes threats and blusterings succeed when fair words fail. For some weeks U. S. Cinema Censor Will H. Hays has been in Paris speaking none but fair words (TIME, April 2). His ticklish task has been to persuade the Cinematic Control Commission of the French Ministry of Public Instruction that it ought to modify a recent drastic decree. This was, in effect, that U. S. cinema dramas would be licensed for exhibition in France solely upon condition that for every four films so licensed U. S. exhibitors would purchase one French film and display it throughout...