Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed in Great Britain by the League; it rejected the 1937 Peel Commission's contention that might (and oil) make right, but it refused, too, to put its trust in a short-sighted, if definite, series of figures...
...feasible substitute. It is the best the nations are willing to accept. If it exercises its limited powers fairly and well, U.N. can create opinion favorable to an international government and can demonstrate that it is capable of assuming greater responsibilities. Gradually, as the nations acquire more and more trust in it, U.N. can wield ever increasing power. This development can be hastened by intelligent discussion and criticism, but not by the ill-reasoned carping or unqualified disparagement that is currently popular among certain fanatic internationalists...
...Rubinstein moved the Chosen Corp. and himself into the U.S. He took the trust's money into Wall Street, in 1942 bought control of Panhandle for $187,000. Soon he turned it into a holding company controlling $6,600,000 in subsidiary oil, urban real estate, road-building and construction interests...
...murder, bring off an equally clumsy auto murder, face sure conviction, and are rescued in one of the most reptilian bits of legal chicanery that ever made fiction look almost as strange as truth. They are hounded by blackmailers; they are tortured still more severely by their inability to trust each other; they come at last to a surprise ending which, in the novel, had much the force of a mule's kick. Scripters Niven Busch and Harry Ruskin have had to tinker amazingly little with this hideous story...
From Radios to Real Estate. During the depression Henderson & Moore got into another new thing-real estate. With $10,000 worth of World Radio stock as capital, they bought control of Beacon Participations Inc., an investment-trust, used its cash to buy property cheap. In five years they controlled $30,000,000 worth of real estate, including Cambridge's Hotel Continental, which they bought at auction. They liked this taste of the hotel business. So in 1939 they bought control of Boston's swank Copley Plaza and Sheraton, both of which were losing money. Henderson admitted that...