Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rowan report implied that food scarcity this year interferes with the duck's good sense: "Undoubted catfee of the enormous mortality is the hungry duck greedily attempting to feed on the leeches when they are in their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds are full of choking birds. "At Stobart Lake...
...city's unemployed. In July a special session of the New York Legislature had been called to give the city special taxing powers for the emergency. The tycoons of finance were present in the City Hall to protest four drastic taxes which Financial Counselor Untermyer was about to clamp upon them...
License. To bring balky industries into line the President can clamp a licensing system down on them. By canceling a license he may put one concern or a whole industry out of business until it is ready to subscribe to a fair trade code. The licensing period is one year instead of two. Last week many a manufacturer was threatening to shut up shop altogether rather than submit to this gun-at-head provision...
Despite this evil-smelling State record Congress was determined to clamp a similar system down on all Federal Reserve member banks, make it optional with nonmember State banks. It was this arbitrary method of forcing big banks to stand sponsor for little banks that outraged Manhattan bankers. Big State banks in New York talked covertly of seceding from the Federal Reserve System rather than submit to such a levy. Even big national banks might exchange their Federal charters for State charters to escape from the Reserve. Such a withdrawal on a large scale might well wreck the whole Federal Reserve...
Suddenly last week the five-day week movement bounded far out in front of the slow-moving industrial procession when the Senate unexpectedly passed (53-to-30) a bill that would clamp down upon U. S. manufacturers and producers not only the five-day week but also the far more radical six-hour day. As an emergency measure to combat unemployment the proposed law would be effective for only two years. Its author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work...