Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15." In July the monopoly was split into 34 separate companies (splinters, Wall Street called them) and the great oil monopoly officially ceased to exist. But the largest Standard splinters remain the largest of U. S. oil companies; the Standard group still controls roughly 50% of the industry. Among the major companies once constituent portions of the oil monopoly, now separate but still prosperous...
...Psychologist Henri Bergson, most famed student of laughter, says it is mainly a social phenomenon. "Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. . . . However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary...
...pursuit tactics to the acid test under extremely rigorous weather conditions, and to afford a very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then...
This second group serves because the Air Law Review gives briefs, reviews, interpretations and general surveys of laws pertaining to every human activity above the earth. Though designed primarily to discuss and report radio and aviation law. within its purview come all things which pertain to the air-air rights for buildings above railroad tracks, the migration of fowl, the calling of hogs at a state line...
...only was Haiti burdened by all the characteristics which made stable government in Latin-American countries such a difficult problem, but in addition there were certain peculiarities which complicated the situation. Ignorance, illiteracy, and inexperience were nearly universal. Although there was a small group of intellectually elite who had had training abroad, the mass of the population was unlettered. Furthermore, both the peasants and the Government were poor. Then again, Haiti was made a republic and, though the plan was simple, the people were unable to function properly as citizens because they hardly knew what the word meant...