Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning the heat on the U.S. Tariff Commission, many U.S. manufacturers are asking and getting stiff tariff increases on competitive European products.* Other companies are insisting that U.S. Government agencies, which spend immense sums for equipment and supplies, must "Buy American"-in conformity with a 1933 law which prevents federal agencies from buying foreign goods unless they are at least 25% cheaper (after paying the U.S. tariff) than comparable U.S. products...
...Bogart, sneering, slugging, and scotching, uses them all like he uses a chaser--as little as possible after a stiff drink. It's strictly a fan picture. But the power of the press comes through. Rienzi gets his. But then, so do Maxie and Sam. The only one who seems to come out on top is Ethel Barrymore, and after all, she is needed for that new movie on Lucky Luciano...
...Detroit, and for the first time began producing his own machines in the U.S. He ran the works, by remote control, from his enormous English stone mansion near Stow on the Wold, Gloucester. In 1949, young Henry called on him to try to settle their differences. Ferguson set such stiff terms that Ford gave up. Finally, in Manhattan's federal court last year, the trial began...
...Hofstra was only our second game," says Munro. "I think the boys were still a bit stiff. Besides, Hofstra threw up a zone defense; we'd never seen anything like that, and couldn't get our attack going...
...busy Broad Street, Librarian Adler began setting up the kind of school Lawyer Dropsie had in mind. There were to be no restrictions on race, creed or sex, and no tuition fees. Only candidates for doctorates would be accepted, and the admission requirements would be kept purposely stiff...