Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truckmen's strike in Jersey City, N. J. that closed A. & P.'s warehouse and distributing station. They stayed closed, their activities were transferred to Manhattan. The Hartford family who own A. & P. almost as securely as Henry Ford owns his business, are equally capable of taking drastic action. While the National Labor Relations Board summoned them and the unions to Washington, with a six-point peace plan offered by the Cleveland Regional Labor Board up for discussion, packers were already at work preparing the goods in A. & P.'s Cleveland warehouses for shipment to other cities...
...firing in Madrid, 12,000 retired army officers and an association of noblemen headed by the Viscount of Cubas stepped forward to offer their services to the Government. Snapped a potent Deputy: "This uncertainty, if it continues, will end in military dictatorship. The Government should take the most drastic steps...
...Bank of China has shipped no gold since August, has built up heavy reserve stocks, could increase these stocks by declaring an embargo on silver and selling silver through the Government to buy gold. Bankers familiar with the East were sure that such a plan would not work. Any drastic change in China's financial structure would probably provoke a revolution. The Nationalist Government is not strong enough to prevent the smuggling of silver...
...high officer in the Yard police who declined to let his name be brought into the discussion remarked that late in August, birth control proving totally impractical, XX high power buckshot was resorted to by his henchmen in their valiant fight. As a result of this drastic action the Yard has remained an habitable region, although the former amicable attitude of the squirrels has given way to one of hauteur and strained reserve--rarely talented indeed will be the member of the Class of 1938 who makes any lasting friends among the four footed denizens of the Yard...
Japan's rebuttal to Comrade Rudy last week was drastic if not hysterical. Tokyo papers broke out in a rash of charges that Soviet employes of C. E. R. have been burning themselves out of their own railway stations, wrecking their own trains to spite Manchukuo...