Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated a bill by Nebraska's Norris to curb Federal injunctions in labor disputes and outlaw "yellow dog" contracts;? rejected all amendments to soften its stringent provisions...
...Darracque in which, next day, he won two races. In 1912 he had the narrowest escape of his life when a tire blew out at 100 m.p.h. Blue Bird broke a wheel, was saved from tipping over when the end of the axle, grating on a curb, held the car up till it stopped...
...ever known. It was not long before advertising agencies discovered how to combine the two for their own benefit, with the result that radio programs are now merely high powered sales talks. Some European nations have taken over the control of a few stations in an effort to curb this prostitution of a potentially beneficial agency. But in the United States no governmental effort has been made to stamp out the vicious parasite, commercialization...
...swung in to the curb in front of a schoolhouse. Out stepped Mr. Inouye. Out from the shadow of a doorway stepped a thin little fellow in a tattered kimono and dirty black felt hat to send- Blam! Blam! Blam!-three bullets into the left breast of Junnosuke Inouye. The fellow in the tattered kimono was quickly arrested. His name was Sei Konuma, 22, and he came from the country. With sirens screaming, police whisked Mr. Inouye to the Imperial University Hospital where in a few minutes he died. At the hospital his wife, pale and dry-eyed, said...
Most drastic of the changes proposed was an elaborate set of provisions to curb credit for speculation. Borrowings from the Federal Reserve on commercial paper would be conducted as they are now, but borrowings on banks' promissory notes and Government bonds would be 1% more expensive. Borrowings would be for 15 days, but should a bank increase its loans on securities during that period it would be barred from further loans. In addition, Federal Reserve Banks would have to keep a strict watch on the loan policies of members in each district, would have to be given complete reports...