Word: corsetable
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Twin Perils. Few bankers expected another boost so soon. And the Fed's surprise move amounts to a monetary corset for the fattening economy. "We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since 1931," said Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin. The nation, he maintained, faces "uncontrollable inflation" or an "uncontrollable recession" because of an "intolerable balance of payments deficit side by side with a budget deficit...
Brose is equally candid with the personnel director, Mrs. Murray (Elizabeth Wilson). Mrs. Murray is a corset-bound volume of Freudian clichés. She is both primly inhibited and latently lecherous, and Brose sniffs out the strange musk of her personality: "Like when you said what was my relations with my mother, I just couldn't stop myself saying 'son'; it came straight out. I've been wondering what the proper answer was, her being dead...
...Including power tools, die presses, diesel engines, certain metals and industrial chemicals-as well as corset stays and hog troughs, firemen's hats and bathtub stoppers, arsenic and lace, popcorn and canned hominy...
...arts that first instructed Isadora in the dance. Fresh off a cattle boat from New York in 1899, she and her brother haunted the Louvre, particularly its Greek sculpture collection, where Isadora sought models for her movements. Once they were found, she cast off the traditional ballet corset and slippers, danced barefoot in a transparent Greek tunic to a storm of mixed scandal and approval. By the time she died at the age of 49 in 1927, when her long red shawl caught in the wheel of a sports car and strangled her, she had ushered in the whole modern...
...that want to locate in the heart of the world's second-biggest market. More than a third of Alsace's new plants are either wholly or partially owned by Germans; the Swiss have 15 plants, the Americans 8. German-owned Triumph employs 800 people at a corset and girdle factory in Strasbourg; other German companies are busy making shoes, office equipment, and engineering and precision instruments. America's Timken Roller-Bearing has built the largest foreign-owned plant (1,000 employees) at Colmar; Remington Rand employs 311 persons to produce electric shavers at Huttenheim; Minoc...