Word: braked
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...snort like a horse." (Mosquitoes? "Well, stranger . . . it is a fact that they are rather enormous. [But] if they are large, Arkansaw is large, her varments are large, her rivers are large. A small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansaw than preaching in a cane-brake...
...more inflation to come and 2)some of the inflationary cash went into the market because there were no goods for it to buy. The FRB steadily cut down trading on margin until a year ago, when Chairman Eccles decided that inflation had reached "dangerous proportions." To brake the market, he put trading on a cash basis. Now, Marriner Eccles was finally recognizing what the collapse of the big bull market had foretold. Prices were too high and were bound to come down in short order. Last week, they were coming down fast (see Prices...
...want of soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut crop...
...Senate went a routine treaty establishing formal relations between the U.S. and the new republic of the Philippines. To Cabinet officers, all federal departments and agencies, went strongly worded messages, ordering a cutback of at least $2.2 billion in Government spending as a brake against inflation and the looming budget deficit...
...basic fact that amazes the British: the Code is a voluntary brake Hollywood puts on itself. Its clearest purpose: to keep non-Hollywood censors-official and amateur-out of the industry's hair. (The Code's dozen-odd pages of printed rules need no explanation. Samples: "Adultery . . . must not be ... justified, or presented attractively. . . . Complete nudity is never permitted...