Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President took a long step toward economic warfare. When he froze the U.S. assets (and future financial transactions) of the 16 remaining unfrozen European countries (see p. 13), he did not merely lock the stable door too late. Though the big horse was gone, several ponies still fed in the U.S. stall. Dividends and patent royalties due Germans have been piling up in the U.S., providing dollars that could easily be used to finance the Gestapo in this Hemisphere as well as at home. Some of the newly frozen neutrals, notably Switzerland, have been financial servants...
When spring came, Mrs. Groenewegen wrote to the Post Office Department in Washington. On her own land, just 233 yards away from the post office, was a good, warm shack only 40 years old. Could she move the post office into that, before she froze to death? Back came a letter from Ambrose O'Connell, First Assistant Postmaster General: "You are here by authorized to change the site. . . ." Mrs. Groenewegen made ready to move...
Sophomore Bill, "Uncle Bill," won five straight holes on the back nine to erase a five hole deficit and square his match with three holes to go. Then he won on the eighteenth when his opponent froze on a three-foot putt...
With each new advance of the Axis, the U. S. condemned aggression, froze the assets of the invaded country, repeated again its insistence on the rights of small nations, and then, when the Nazi war machine had rolled over another one, recognized the Government in exile. So it was with Norway, The Netherlands, Luxembourg; so it threatened to be for many more. It was a grim, unvaried procession, that at its best made U. S. policy seem well-meaning, unimaginative, unreal...
...President was enormously busy, conferring, planning, driving his vast crew to later hours, harder tasks, heavier responsibilities. He froze Bulgarian credits, signed a bill easing inequities of the 1940 excess-profits-tax law, as early Treasury tax returns showed 58% larger than 1939's; signed a bill providing $375,000,000 to continue WPA until July 1, subjected 16 more critical war materials to export license control; slashed by 55% the Army Engineers' $366,808,925 recommendations for 619 juicy rivers-&-harbors pork-barrel projects. Twice at press conferences he endeavored to quiet fears that labor strikes were...