Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overture to price ceilings over everything, OPA first froze all export prices. Exporters can now charge no more than original cost, plus an "average" export premium over domestic prices, plus certain "specified expenses." The door by which many a U.S. manufacturer might have escaped from domestic ceilings was thus closed in advance...
Eleanor Roosevelt's frilly white collar turned to sponge; her smile froze into catalepsy. Nothing fit; everything was missing; the movers unquestionably had broken the last piece of china. As housewives always say: If I ever live through this day, I'll never move again. . . . In the evening newsmen tried to talk...
First, to prevent radical fashion changes, Clothier Marcus "froze" the current silhouette. Then he eliminated extraneous frills: voluminous skirts, deep hems, full sleeves, wide belts. Third move was to ar range that coats and suits, jackets and dresses be sold separately, to make them go further. These changes should save 100,000,000 yards of cloth...
...wheels of industry, the lad who nearly froze to death, the cripple who led his class, typified the real U.S. at War. The problem was how to use this U.S. strength...
...occasionally. As a director of Union Pacific Railroad he made a thorough study of air transportation. As a faithful traveler to Europe (two months each year on business trips) he satisfied his airman's curiosity by seeing all that was to be seen. What he saw in Germany froze him to the marrow...