Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...society. Under way in Washington were negotiations for a consent decree by which ASCAP would forsake its blanket agreements. Since these blanket agreements have been a major factor in the networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued brawling bitterly. Still ignored by both the battlers was FCC, oft cited as a possible arbitrator for the feud. Said a spokesman for the Commission : "We look at it more or less this way : It's just...
This report was no fantasy from the mind of an idle reporter. In World War I Italy used the MAS (motor torpedo boat), the Grillo (a strange naval tank with spike-studded treads for climbing over harbor booms), and the piloted torpedo -prototype of last week's "secret" weapon...
...jagged side of the plateau to get a look at the countryside, the Pan Am engineers were astonished to find a surface so flat that little more than smoothing and a bit of leveling were needed. Above the malaria level, the airport surface is so hard that a spike can scarcely be driven into it. As yet, the engineers have found no nearby water supply. After building a road up the steep face of the plateau, Pan Am hired 380 natives (all who could be found and persuaded to work) to build hangars and clear two 6,200-foot runways...
Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
...cooling period that must by law elapse between the registration and sale of any new security. During the 20 days, underwriters and dealers chew their nails, hark nervously for stop orders, sometimes watch a good market turn into a bad one (leaving them holding the bag). When Emmett ("Spike") Connely became president of the Investment Bankers Association last year and declared open war on the Securities Acts, the 20-day clause was his first objective...