Word: exaction
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...growth of a series of strikes which began last week among bus drivers, spread to waterfront workers, slaughterhouse and market men, newspaper staffs, telegraphers, railway employes and the staffs of Havana's best hotels. Suspicion was rife that the Government, fearing Mediator Welles was about to exact the resignation of President Machado. had sent agents provocateurs to foment the original strikes, thinking that a little trouble would give Dictator Machado an excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after day, as strikes spread far beyond the Government's possible wish, Havana police...
...theft police advanced the theory that the sneak thief had used a stick tipped with chewing gum to lift the bonds from behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed, as most...
...backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue...
...engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb-for the First Working Partner...
...exact rules for registration had been issued only the day before and those who filed did so merely on the general terms of the law.* Each registration, filed in triplicate with exhibits, was a fair sized volume in itself. By comparison an income tax return was a venture in first grade arithmetic. The staff of the Trade Commission's new Bureau of Securities was faced with a mountain of work. Nonetheless they set to, eagerly seeking errors in the applications, promptly found some unaccompanied by checks or by checks uncertified...