Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which date all holding companies must register with SEC. Then SEC may be confronted with mass rebellion on the part of big holding companies, can prosecute for noncompliance with the law, which to date has not been violated. Sensing the threatened revolt, SEChairman Landis called upon powermen to weigh their plans in the light of the penalties involved, should the Supreme Court eventually sustain the Act. Pointing out that they could reserve full right to challenge the Act while. filing the relatively simple registration, he cried over the powermen's heads to their stockholders: "There lies the simple path...
...continued the Dodo, standing on one leg and the other against his forehead, "the officials have discovered that the average family's cooking oven and pans will not accomodate a turkey weighing more than eighteen pounds. The new one will fit in every home; and weigh about fifteen pounds. It's science, and it's politics...
...expected to attend his last college exercise before and his first college exercise before and his first college exercise after each one-day holiday. However, a student in good standing will not necessarily be placed on probation for cutting before and after one-day holidays, but such cuts will weigh heavily against him if his record becomes unsatisfactory...
...interested last week in two rival cans which raced each other into the market. Taproom champions of the thesis that beer tastes better from kegs than from bottles rarely consider how it would taste from cans. But canmakers have long toyed with the idea. Cans would stack more easily, weigh less, could be thrown away after using. The problem was to devise a lining. By last week American Can and Continental Can both thought they had the solution...
Almost as big as the Sikorsky and Martin transoceanic Clipper ships, the new Boeing is said to weigh 30,000 Ib. loaded, carry six tons of bombs, have a top-speed of 250 m.p.h., a ceiling of 25,000 ft., a range of 2,500 mi. without refueling. Actual performance figures were secret...