Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present the HTW is coasting along on a reputation it started to earn with its extra-massive production of "St. Joan" last year. Its first effort was a unique artistic and financial failure which froze Rindge Tech auditorium, Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon...
Last summer the U.S., like a rather heavy uncle, felt obliged to stop Britain's spending money. Washington froze the last $400 million on the 1946 loan (all that was left of the original $3,750 million) because the British had not been able to keep sterling freely convertible. Last week Washington unfroze the $400 million...
...stock, or $45,000,000 worth, is held by U.S. investors, who, like the Dutch stockholders, have first option to buy any new shares issued. Last week the company announced a whopping new $114,000,000 stock issue. But the Dutch government, by means of new currency controls, virtually froze U.S. investors...
...ball across the plate. Satisfied that he could have made it in that time, Jackie scurried back to third base and took a deep breath. Next pitch, as Beggs involved himself in another slow-motion windup, Robinson was off like an express, rushing for the plate. The pitcher froze like a man with a high-voltage electric wire in his hand. Jackie went home standing...
...million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could be found. What the conferees could do they did. They suspended convertibility, froze what was left of Britain's loan, and in effect closed the bank, as Franklin D. Roosevelt did on the first day of the New Deal...