Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this coffee loan isn't to support a Brazilian monopoly!" ? that was what suave Mr. Speyer or somebody for him had to say to the State Department, convincingly. It was said ? convincingly. Last week Acting Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton officially announced that the administration has no objection to the loan, believing that it will be used only for temporary support of the Brazilian hoard. which the hoarders promise to liquidate within ten years...
...snapshots had first to procure the services of a mule. On the mule would be loaded: a tent for the preparation of the "wet plates" (which were sensitized in the tent and put, dripping, into the camera); vats for the chemical solutions; a tripod which would support a piano box: a camera nearly as large as a piano box: a helper...
Rebuffed, United canvassed individual NAT stockholders for their proxies to support its exchange offer. Bitterness was intensified when United obtained the holdings of certain of the NAT personnel. Quick to retaliate, Curtiss-Keys launched a counter-offensive for proxies...
...week, Youngstown went forth to meet the enemy; last week, the enemy was not only at Youngstown's gates, but actually within them. For the stockholders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. were assembled, in person or by proxy, to determine whether the city's chief support and chief crown was to survive as an independent company or was to become a part of great Bethlehem (TIME, March 24, April...
...able Alexander Smallens for musical director. It presented only the best of operas and those most creditably. It was with regret last week that its admirers read a disbandment announcement by its president, Mrs. Henry M. Tracy. The reasons given were customary: excessive costs of production; lack of financial support. Onlookers wondered if perhaps the Civic Company had not been eclipsed by the increased activities of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, which has profited since last autumn by affiliation with the Curtis Institute of Music, the millions of Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis...