Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...known data and theory on the practices of the newspaper world. This has been the exact course followed by the Foundation, with obvious success for those "chosen few." However, it is the personal success of these men which has lent some doubt about the ultimate practically of the scheme...
...marine, an assembly plant to turn out standardized ships for Britain in wholesale quantities, the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the repeal of the Johnson Act (prohibiting loans to govern ments in default on World War I debts). In official circles, outright repeal of the Johnson Act or a scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry, one centre of the British aircraft industry, started speculation as to whether the President would change his "rule-of-thumb" by which England was to get 50% of U. S. airplane production, and give her a larger share...
...Austrian cook's attempt to win her salvationby"theological craftiness."She would pay for her nephew's clerical education so that, when he became a priest, his grateful prayers would win grace for her sinful soul. Indifferent to her nephew except as a part of her scheme, Teta answered his pleas for money for 30 years. One day she retired, set out to visit him. He was not, as he claimed, the parish priest in her home town in Moravia. After "a labyrinthine meandering through her nephew's long-forgotten past," she found him in haunted Prague...
...robust "Tut" Tuttle invited some 500 newsmen, steel technicians and customers to look over his expanded Baltimore plant. They jostled each other in the long, low, light green business offices, ate liberally of a free buffet lunch, marveled at the progress that had been made. A promoter's scheme in 1929, near bankrupt in 1933, Rustless is now one of the Big Three stainless steel makers (other two: Allegheny Ludlum, Republic). Capacity has been upped from 20,000 tons (1934) to 75,000 tons, nearly one-half the entire U. S. 1939 production...
...fell swoop; the "honor system" can easily be carried too far, as Esquire's aggrieved females tell us each month. A suitable compromise might well be the Oxford card system, which was proposed in 1936 at the time when the "two-woman" rule was dropped. Under this scheme, a House member would simply sign in at the time he takes a guest to his room, and sign out when she leaves. There would be no chaperoning, no headaches about finding a tutor to grant permission ahead of time...