Word: damper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deal enraged Weir. He saw its proliferating regulations as a damper on expanding capitalism, emerged as a symbol of business besieged by Government and by the growing C.I.O. In 1936 he wrote: "I am what Mr. Roosevelt calls an economic royalist." But, unlike the President, he added proudly, "I was born a commoner, have lived a commoner, and am still a commoner...
This development put a damper on the hopes of some delegates who earlier had professed belief a solution was in sight...
...Quantico Marines. 9 to 7, as Gilligan led the Crimson with a single, a double, and a home run. Before the Yale game, Gilligan was the leading Varsity batter with a .388 average followed by McGrath and Ticknor with .343 and .306 averages, respectively. Yale put somewhat of a damper on the season as they beat the Crimson...
...Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council, the nation's top industrialists worried that tight money might force cutbacks in industry's expansion plans. Said Scripto's President James V. Carmichael: ("There's no question the tightening of credit has put a slight damper on our long-range planning." Department Store (Daniels & Fisher) President Joe Ross worried that the money shortage might cut back on Denver's "tremendous growth." Complained Ross: "The cost of expansion is prohibitive because of the money rates." But few businessmen had been forced to alter building and modernization plans. Actually...
...Rumford, a title that Benjamin Thompson acquired through his service to the Elector of Bavaria, studied everything from biology to how to build a better fireplace. By careful study of air currents and the flow of warm and cold air in fireplaces he developed the throat, smoke shelf, and damper, which constitute the present non-smoking hearth...