Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bankers used to make. The Central Bank would merely pay them for handling deposits for it. Thus, when Juan Perón took office June 4, his government would get control of $2 billion in deposits (just when it needed a billion to meet expenses), would have a hammer lock on credit that would permit withholding loans from individuals or institutions...
...just don't know where it's all going to end," said a young nurse. The head nurse snapped: "I'll tell you. . . . When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones...
...Lock J. Quan '48--Ruth Nicoll (Radcliffe...
...wrote daily, rigorously, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. No Victorian reader of Dickens' works ever wept so copiously over them as Dickens himself. "I have had a good cry," he once wrote to Forster. "I am worn to death. I was obliged to lock myself in when I finished yesterday, for my face was swollen to twice its proper size. . . ." "Between ourselves," he gravely informed another friend, "Paul [Dombey] is dead. He died on Friday night about ten o'clock...
This week a labor dispute, already one of the most stubbornly protracted in the nation, still silenced the lathes of Stamford's biggest factory. Yale & Towne, a lock and hardware company founded in 1868 by two Yankee inventors, had been shut down since Nov. 7 by a strike of 2,500 union machinists, mostly of recent Italian and Polish extraction...