Word: choke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed hotter than ever. The day before the court decision, U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, top industry negotiator, told the Virginia Manufacturers Association that the union enjoys "vastly" greater power than the companies; that Steelworker President David McDonald is the "only man who can choke off our nation's steel supply at will." When the Supreme Court order was announced, McDonald agreed to obey "the law of the land," but struck a do-or-die pose. Cried he: "Steelworkers do not quit. They will not bow down to industrial tyranny...
...them there was a strong note of worry. Reason: money has become so tight that the situation has raised grave questions for the bankers-and for the U.S. How much higher will interest rates go? How long will the pinch last? Will money become so tight that it will"choke off the boom...
...days it was touch and go. First Denett seemed the weaker, then Jeanett sank alarmingly, with mucus threatening to choke her. Surgeons cut a hole in her neck and passed a silver tube into her windpipe to provide extra oxygen and speed drainage. Next day Jeanett went into unexplained spasms. Adrenaline-like drugs, and her own vitality, pulled her through that crisis. Last week, with infinite relief, the University of Oregon doctors pronounced the operation a success. Their greatest immediate danger past, both babies were doing well...
...that was called to the scene backs up his story. The boys deny the charge, insist that the rescuers carelessly placed the victim on his back. Whatever the truth, on arrival at Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital at 1:48 a.m., less than two hours after he began to choke, Dick Swanson was dead...
Most businessmen do not think that the high cost of borrowing will choke off the boom. Corporate income taxes today trim the real cost of borrowing money by as much as one-half, with the result that the effective cost of borrowing money is still lower than at many other times in U.S. history. Moreover, a borrower who really needs the money is not likely to quibble about half a point...