Word: straitjacket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father stood. They saw a rescuer jump to the ledge and grab him. They saw him dragged into the building as he screamed, "I don't want to die! I don't want to die!" They saw him jabbed with a hypodermic and tied into a straitjacket...
...completely, since tight controls had failed to do it during World War II. Economists guessed that the U.S. would be doing well if the general price level rises only 10% a year during rearmament. The great danger was that in trying to do the impossible, the Government would so straitjacket the economy with controls that the battle for production would be lost...
Fortunately, their tracks were plain and some of them still quite fresh. When a $3 billion stockpile program was first established in 1946, a forceful bloc of Congressmen from the western metals states strapped it into a "Buy American" straitjacket, requiring that everything be purchased in the U.S. unless it was "inconsistent with the public interest" or "unreasonable" in price. It was silly, Harry Truman noted, to build up a stockpile by bringing the U.S.'s own underground reserves aboveground, and as he signed the act he invited the Munitions Board to buy abroad through the loopholes...