Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asthmatics. Noel Franklin Shambaugh of the University of Southern Cali fornia has cured some sufferers from asthma by giving them drugs to loosen phlegm in their lungs, then having them assume a head-down posture. In that position, they hacked, coughed and spit for three minute periods morning " evening until asthma left them entirely...
...compatriots' compliment by dedicating The Last of Mr. Norris to W. H. Auden. To canny readers, this salute was as unmistakable a signal as a finger laid to the nose: Author Isherwood is a lad of the new day, and oldsters had best avoid him altogether or loosen their collars before they begin to read...
...Flandin wants. Spokesmen for the young Premier said happily that French banks, which are now loaded up with some 10,000,000,000 of short-term Treasury paper, will soon re-discount this at the Bank of France and consequently will be in a position to loosen up French credit generally. The Treasury will also do some short-term unloading of its own upon the Bank of France, thus getting funds with which to appear to balance the budget without having, to ask the Chamber to vote higher taxes. By this fascinating maneuver the State also avoids another long-term...
...shall during the summer and autumn, as best I may, present these matters to the people of this country and urge them to ask the leaders at Washington to loosen the grip of bureaucracy upon the daily lives and habits of the people...
...direct loans program will go toward loosening the long-term capital market will depend on how liberally its administrators accept collateral. The bill stipulated that borrowers must be solvent and collateral adequate. All applications are to be submitted first to the Federal Reserve. If rejected there, they may be taken to RFC without prejudice. How liberal Jesse Jones, who has been yammering "Loosen up!" to bankers for months, will be may be guessed from the fact that one of his chief ambitions is to match the record of Eugene Meyer's War Finance Corp., which paid back...