Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...past three weeks speculators in the City have been gambling on "generous" terms. The value of railway stocks has risen by $400,000,000. Last week the stocks went even higher. Minister of Transport Euan Wallace announced that the four main British railroads which have operated under a pool scheme since the war began, would be guaranteed a wartime profit of ?40,000,000 ($160,000,000) a year. Since the guaranteed profit was based on the revenues for 1935, 1936 and 1937, excluding the depression year of 1938, the terms seemed more than generous. In addition, the companies will...
They plan to tear apart the existing financial, social, and mechanical defects and then to propose an alternate scheme, radically revising the election system...
Freshman year at Harvard is meant to be a pleasant time when the Yardling tries his hand at several disciplines, and wisely chooses the field in which he wants to work for the major part of his last two years. This is a scheme nicely calculated to give the Harvard graduate both breadth and depth of intellect. Unfortunately it often doesn't work out that way at all, as shown by the figures released by Dean Leighton yesterday...
...Band played the leader's original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious Princess Baba announced an unfulfilled scheme of buying a rival kingdom to Sarawak and calling it Babaland...
Finland's wiry old peasant President, Kyosti Kallio-73 years old and full of sisu (courage)-last week thought up a new scheme to get supplies for his country. To the New York Times's Correspondent Harold Denny he said...