Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock market, already nervous over the news from Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), promptly went into a new decline, certain that the new curb would edge interest rates upward and increase the cost of doing business. In two days, the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 2.29 points to 180.61 in the heaviest selling in weeks. But bankers doubted whether FRB's action would tighten credit much. There was too much money in circulation and too many big non-bank lenders, e.g., insurance companies, ready to fork out cash. New York's National City Bank Monthly Letter said that a practical...
Credit Plan. Westinghouse Electric Corp., which thought appliance sales might be nipped by the Government's installment credit curb, announced a new plan to make credit easier: Westinghouse will guarantee the buyer's bank loan. If he defaults, Westinghouse will buy back the equipment, and repay the balance of the loan...
...Probable holdouts: the carpenters' William Hutcheson, a lifelong Republican; the building service employees' William McFetridge. The teamsters' Dan Tobin, who is still mad because the President signed the Hobbs bill, designed to curb "racketeering" by his truck drivers, has not made up his mind...
...truck. At 5:30 next morning, they were off to Ottawa's By Ward Market. In a jiffy the Gauthiers were setting up shop (they pay $35 a year for a stall, plus 10? for each day they actually use it). Gene backed up to the curb and began to arrange the vegetables and fruit on packing boxes, along the running board, and on the tailboard. When all was in order, he left Winnifred in charge and went to a nearby lunchroom for a belated breakfast (pork chop, pineapple pie, coffee with plenty of sugar). His wife went...
...policies to Lanny Budd compares himself to a man driving three horses: "One of these horses is young and wild; that is my New Deal group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time, and I have to put a curb-bit in that horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman...