Word: cancellation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's biggest gold buyer, the argument continued, the U.S. should raise its buying price to about $50 an ounce. Failing that, it should declare a free market in gold, i.e., drop the ban against citizens' buying, selling or owning gold, and cancel the requirement that miners sell only to the Federal Government. Producers confidently felt that freeing gold would boost the price, since it is now selling for as high as $70 an ounce in the free gold marts of India, China, France and more than a dozen other nations...
...Orleans, it took people a while to get over the shock of Tulane's 46-7 drubbing by the Irish. Then everybody seemed to get mad at once. Coach Henry Frnka told friends he would cancel the scheduled 1950 game if he could. Last week Tulane announced that because of schedule difficulties it was impossible to continue the series with Notre Dame...
...dwindling steadily. That would not have been alarming if the coal was distributed properly, but it was not. A prize batch, 10 million tons, was piled in the idle steel industry's bins. The New York Central R.R. lopped 89 steam-powered trains from its schedule, had to cancel another 57 next day when the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered all railroads with low coal supplies to cut steam-locomotive passenger runs by 25%. "By the end of this week or next," said a U.S. Government coal expert, "we will be in damn bad shape unless something gives...
...Association, presided over by Joseph P. Spang, Jr. '15, donated the sum to the band this summer when they were seeking funds to travel to Stanford for the football opener. When last minute difficulties forced the band to cancel their trip, the Association permitted them to keep their contribution, a portion of which had already been spent for organizational expenses...
...hand him their petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...