Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...value of the property; 3) business assets, plant and machinery will bear a compulsory premium of 1½% of their value; 4) churches and chapels will be insured free, the Treasury paying all premiums. In addition, the War Damage Bill provides that any Briton may voluntarily insure under the scheme one motorcar worth up to $2,000 and additional personal property worth up to $6,000 upon payment of a premium...
...objection to his scheme the President had anticipated. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1933 developed a mighty assemblage of opponents to the Seaway-shippers, economists, railroad men, representatives of the Port of New Orleans-speaking for interests that would be injured, or thought they would be injured, if the Seaway went through. And New York State's utilities had fought the Seaway from the start. Said the President: "Selfish interests will tell you that I am cloaking this great project in national defense in order to gain an objective which has always been dear...
...scheme was still only a scheme, in spite of the President's determined words. There was bound to be a hot time in Congress when the Seaway came up before it, next session. Public opinion might stop the plan, as it had stopped the Supreme Court reorganization bill. Or, like
...former Toronto broker. Since 1932 his avocation has been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody to grasp it in half an hour...
Tentative reports indicated that none of the attacks approached the full blitzkrieg tempo such as that which devastated Coventry to start the new Nazi scheme of concentrating on a single town...