Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walt Disney, film-father of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, told how the Reds had first tried to put a crimp in World-Girdler* Mickey, the traveling salesman of the U.S. When the Disney studios went on strike in 1937, he said, Labor Leader Herbert Sorrell admitted that Communist money had financed the walkout...
...quotas were boosted a generous 20% above their average 1936-45 output. And they were promised subsidies if they were good enough to stay within their quotas. On the other hand, foreign producers in such countries as Peru got quota cuts. Though small, these cuts will put a painful crimp in their dwindling dollar balances. And Cuba, though it got an increased quota, was also saddled with a clause which, in effect, threatened revocation of her quota if she failed to settle any private claims that U.S. nationals had against...
Foller, the fireball flinger of the Cleveland Indians--Newhouser, the calculating lefty from the Detroit Tigers, and Chandler, the New York Yankees cagey veteran, were expected to cast a nine-inning crimp in what the averages show to be slightly superior hitters from the National League
Most important, the abnormal demand for food, clothing and other consumer goods has been partially filled. The return to normal demand should put a crimp in prices. In any case, the spiral of wages & costs cannot rise indefinitely, as long as production is increasing. The fact that wages usually lag behind rising prices will bring acute hardship to many. But it will put an ultimate ceiling on prices. As purchasing power drops, prices will have to come down also...
Many a U.S. scientist last week grimly contrasted U.S. draft policy with those of Britain, Russia and Germany, which have taken care to keep their scientists where they can be most useful - in the laboratories. The heedless drafting of scientists, said they, would not only put a crimp in the U.S. war effort but place the nation at a serious disadvantage in postwar technology...