Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transferred $40,000,000 to New York. Meantime, U. S. exporters await anxiously how and whether the Neutrality Act will be applied. Strict enforcement of the Act would prevent exports in vessels of any nationality of arms, ammunition or implements of war for belligerent states- would put a crimp in present foreign commitments outstanding. Just under the wire last week a British steamer slipped out of San Pedro (Port of Los Angeles) with twenty-five Lockheed bombers aboard...
...implied threat in Secretary Hull's treaty abrogation is an embargo on shipment of war materials to Japan when six months notice is up and possibly penalty duties on Japanese goods. Cutting off U.S. scrap would put a serious crimp in Japan's manufacture of guns and other weapons. With very little scrap iron available outside of the U.S., Japan would have to buy expensive iron and steel or iron ore. For her other U.S.-supplied war materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere...
Ostensible purpose of the gathering, which showed Radcliffe girls for the first time in high-heeled shoes and daring decolletage, was to put a crimp in the Yellow Peril by supporting the Japanese boycott...
Failing eyesight and mental depression broke his health. The Crown, anxious to honor him, offered him an earldom last May, but Scot MacDonald turned it down lest it crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor...
...whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, with an absolute maximum of ⅛ of 1% of the population. Object of Governor Browning's unit plan was to enlarge the voting power of rural districts, put a crimp in the Crump vote by reducing it from approximately 25% of the State total...