Word: braking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial experiences of the 1914-18 period are not likely to be forgotten and the fact that many of our mistakes arose from a failure to prepare for a long war is now acting as a brake on our overseas expenditure, where such expenditure involves the purchase of currencies standing at a premium to sterling; though from every point of view our economic position is far stronger today than it was in 1914. This applies to France as well...
Total construction contracts let in September (F. W. Dodge Corp.'s 37-State report) amounted to $323,227,000, compared to $312,328,000 in August, to $300,900,000 in September 1938. One curious brake on this big advance is contractors' fear that war, if it lasts more than a year, may more than double costs, as it did last time. So they are afraid to bid for jobs taking two years or so to finish. Thus, in New York City last fortnight, only one bid was offered for a whopping new Criminal Courts Building...
Reguar Edward Bird, Eliot House Junior who left Cambridge early Wednesday morning to ride brake rods west to the Harvard-Chicago game, was found dead yesterday on the New York Central tracks near Syracuse, New York...
...matter of prices, international producers' associations usually step on the accelerator rather than on the brake. But the three-year-old international copper cartel has learned better from the sad experiences of the older cartels. Fortnight ago the cartel permitted an increase in production from 95% to 105% of agreed tonnage. Despite this deterrent, prices continued to rise. Last week the cartel removed all restrictions on production, thus dumped a potential 30,000 tons per month more copper on the international market. This time the U. S. price pulled up short at 11.25?, the export price fell...
...stop at a red light, to proceed at a green. But Dr. Fabing's research marked the green as a treacherous come-on, since often just when a motorist steps on the accelerator the green light changes to red, so that his right foot must jump for the brake. Soon most motorists develop what Dr. Fabing calls an "anxiety neurosis in miniature," mainly centred in an uncertain right foot, but with other noticeable effects. On himself, Dr. Fabing noted "a quickening of my pulse by 25 beats ... a pilomotor [hair-on-end] response on my forearms, a dryness...