Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hauge virtually Denmark's Tsar of Imports. Advised by 13 representatives of agriculture, commerce and industry, he will dictate the rationing of foreign exchange (through the National Bank) to Danish importers. Thus if a Dane wants to buy a German Mercedes, the Import Tsar at his discretion can block the exchange transaction and may thus switch the sale to another country, by intimating for example that he would facilitate the purchase of a British Rolls-Royce...
...Germany with other great powers, either through decreases in their armaments or increases by the Fatherland; 2) to revive German industry by what amounts to Treasury grants (issued in the form of negotiable tax rebates) to German employers in proportion as they add to their factory staffs; 3) to block all Socialist (and of course Communist) measures, especially those proposing to break up the huge estates in East Prussia of German Junkers who are the neighbors and stanch friends of Prussian-born President von Hindenburg...
...printing press, Woodcutter Leighton uses the back of an old teaspoon, worn so thin that she can feel through it, to rub the damp paper on the inked block. There are other methods. Woodcutter Howard Heath (see cut), well known in New York art marts for his flower prints, prefers a little rubber roller...
Three days later Grand Champion Texas Special was put on the auction block, in dispirited bidding was sold to Pfaelzer Packing Co. for $1,676.25-$1.25 a lb., lowest price since 1923 when Broadus White Socks brought but 60? a lb.* Before being cut up, Texas Special was taken to Pittsburgh, exhibited some more...
...liquors; secondly, proceeding from the first reason, such an act only needs a majority vote to become law; and lastly that it is generally believed that the Supreme Court will uphold any definition that Congress may make. As the situation stands, it is hardly possible for the drys to block...