Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already applied to CAB for certification as an air-coach operator. Whether he gets it or not, the new rule is not likely to be a death sentence to Air America.; Miller can always retreat to some intrastate route, out of CAB's reach. But CAB's crackdown might kill off more than half the irregulars...
Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
First they arrested scores of minor profiteers. Then came the crackdown on real big shots. The day China's new currency was announced, all stock exchange transactions were frozen. The day before the announcement, a traders' pool, working on inside information, dumped 30 million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
...reassured me. "The only thing they don't like is groups of five or more." But what was the difference between this and the University's official tutoring bureau? "They don't guarantee you a decent grade. I can get you a B." And as for the official crackdown on tutee schools in 1940. "There was a lot of hypocrisy over at Harvard. If you're interested in journalism," he added, "it's a fascinating story...
Even if OPA's flurry of crackdown activity succeeded beyond its hopes, the results would be hardly noticeable on U.S. tables. The meat shortage was virtually a famine, and it would not soon get better. Shipments of livestock to slaughtering centers had dried up; many slaughterers closed up shop indefinitely, along with thousands of butchers. In a week in which it would normally purchase and process 9,000 cattle and 26,000 hogs, Armour & Co.'s main plant in Chicago took in only 68 cattle, 139 hogs...