Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every so often, the officers neglect to enforce the law prohibiting parking after 2 o'clock in the morning, and it is necessary to have them clamp down on the boys," the Cambridge police chief added...
...materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere, but not to advantage. To be unable to buy parts for her U.S.-made trucks, etc. might be embarrassing to Japan, especially if Canada (which has U.S. motor subsidiaries) should also clamp down. To U.S. manufacturers such an embargo might mean a loss of around $175,000,000 a year in sales...
...guts to do it, to send tariffs sky high, and to clamp on import quotas, we could still break Japan and save China," declared William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, in a discussion of "Economic Sanctions in American Diplomacy" at Leverett House Common Room, last night...
...repudiation, these nations, with Britain, lodged stiff protests in Berlin. Britain, however, was the only power in a position to bring the Reich to any sort of terms. Since Britain annually buys $49,440,000 more goods from Germany than she sells, all she had to do was to clamp on exchange clearing control, deduct the debt payments from British money owed German exporters. Germany acted before this got beyond the threat stage...
...Germany has "shifted the balance of power in Europe in favor of Germany and of might over right, but the Ansehluss will increase the problem of feeding the 78 million Germans in the enlarge Retch. Austria's foreign trade and tourist traffic will suffer severely because Hitler will clamp down the right German system of currency control and foreign trade regulation...