Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department had worried plenty about Alemán's reception (TIME May 5). But within a few hours after he landed at Washington's National Airport, the State Department could loosen its proto-collar...
...Retrenchment. No one expected the pinch to loosen for at least six months. Even the normally optimistic CPA said: "The shortage in steel will last for 18 months or two years...
...Arabs and British control Palestine. Arab leaders, fearful that large-scale Jewish immigration with its land acquisition and higher living standards would loosen their hold on the Arab masses, have continually urged Britain, the mandatory power, to restrict further Jewish entry. Pledged by the Balfour Declaration and the League Mandate to help establish a Jewish State in Palestine, the British have been unwilling to carry out their promise because the Arabs threatened their security and oil in the Middle East. Commissions returned from Palestine with trumped-up findings which "proved" that Palestine could not absorb further immigration while Arabs were...
...Three and the individual defendants will have to pay fines of $15,000 each. But no one was naive enough to believe that this would loosen the hold of the Big Three on the cigaret industry...
...April. For 2½ hours his voice boomed confidently through the House of Commons as he explained just how far Britain could loosen its belt. Only thrice did he pick up the little teacup from its green tray and fortify himself with sips of rum and milk.* Once he drew a laugh as he absently rubbed his high, sun-browned bald dome, announced a reduction in the purchase tax on hair-waving and drying machinery...