Word: dampers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Government last week put another credit damper on the boom. From Washington went an order to the 4,200 savings and loan institutions that supply mortgage money for about 37% of the nation's houses. From now on, they must finance new mortgages out of savings and loan repayments only, not by borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Bank. Despite other attempts to slow the boom by restricting credit (TIME, Aug. 8 et seq.), there is little evidence that they have yet had any effect. Items...
Ammunition drops from the sky, when its raining, or runs from the basin any other time. Victims are in every room. And so far, the only unfortunate incident has been over a budding chemist who found that acetic acid would not shoot. The milk shortage has put a damper on that ammunition for the time being...
Like most coaches, Ralph "Cooney" Weiland keeps a heavy damper on public displays of optimism. He's friendly, and definitely not prose to tear-shedding, but he doesn't generally "rave" about things, especially those things which concern his Crimson hockey team...
...atomic weapons, but it will cost nothing like as much to produce . . ." Did the knowledge of the new weapons have anything to do with passage of the $5 billion? "Of course," said Subcommittee Chairman Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming. South Carolina's Burnet Maybank added a slight damper. Appropriations for "the weapons," he said, were "small compared to $5 billion." Most of the money in the $5 billion item was specifically ticketed for direct expansion of U.S. air power-to increase the Navy's air arm as well as to start building the Air Force...