Word: lid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warned the 1,450,000 railroaders to call off their strike by Dec. 27. Three of the 20 unions balked. Said Mr. Roosevelt: "I cannot wait until the last moment." That night reporters stayed on & on at the White House, for Secretary Stephen Early had refused to "put the lid on." At 7 p.m., in a 1,100-word statement, the President gave Secretary of War Stimson complete power over every one of the 233,670 miles of railroad track in the U.S., from the one-mile-long Valley Railroad in McKean County, Penna...
Nelson's problem is to force the industry back to production of cheap goods, even if this means sales at cost, as suggested by Stabilizer Vinson. Bowles's assignment is to search for ways to raise producers' ceilings-without lifting the lid too much on retail prices...
Spang in the middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...response to the eager way the NROTC and V-12 House members payed their House dues, the joint Kirkland and Eliot House committee decided to open the lid of its coffers and share the returns with its contributors. The result was a formal regimental ball that will have bell bottoms and blue suits all streaming towards Eliot House in order that they may join in the fun Saturday night...
...handing out $900 million in food subsidies to farmers and dairymen (to be paid for by future taxation), the Government claims it can hold retail prices of most important foodstuffs at their present ceilings. The question: Do the means justify the end? To those who hold that a tight lid on prices is an absolute necessity, there was ample proof that the means are justified, buttressed by the fact that no sound alternative for subsidies has yet been offered...