Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Storm (Universal). Charles Bickford, Preston Foster and Nan Grey in a virile melodrama exhibiting the up-to-date agonies of ocean-going wireless operators...
...Deacons assumed the lead in the first quarter when Earl Foster went over center on a mousetrap play and kept right on going until he hit the end zone. Jack McClure tacked on another point with a placement...
Charles Bickford staggers bravely through "The Storm," which takes place at sea and nearly prevents Nan Grey from draining Preston Foster's appendices which needed draining. It is a messy but moderately interesting second feature...
...Tipped its hand on the New Deal thesis that existing patent laws foster monopoly. Intervening in a Supreme Court patent-violation suit against General Talking Pictures Corp. by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Department of Justice contended that "public policy cannot tolerate the extension of the patent privilege to control the use to which the consumer may put the article after it has been marketed. It is unnecessary to any legitimate exploitation of the patent, and is a vicious practice which the common judgment of the people will condemn and which the Government must outlaw...
That the New Deal was eager to turn the apples of discord into sweet cider further appeared when Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson summoned four utility bigwigs to Washington to discuss the Administration's long-bruited plan to foster a billion dollars worth of utility expansion for purposes of national defence. Taking the hint, utility stocks soared to new highs for the year on the New York Exchange, led the industrial and railroad averages also to new high ground...