Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which puts Lend-Lease and civilian priorities on a mandatory instead of voluntary basis, thus gives them the same legal status as Army & Navy ratings. In conjunction with recent Regulation No. 1, which forces plants to accept defense orders, this gave SPAB the tools it needed for strict, complete allocation of all of the nation's raw materials and production facilities. It also served notice on Army & Navy that henceforth they could not ride roughshod over Lend-Lease and essential civilian orders...
...free the U.S. from dependence on the Far East to date: competitive buying by other nations, and the soaring rate of consumption in the U.S. (a record 618,592 tons last year, 425,000 tons in the first half of this year). But domestic consumption has been under strict control since June, when Rubber Reserve assumed a monopoly over all U.S. imports. Same month OPM worked out manufacturing quotas. Last week July consumption figures were announced as 68,653 tons-19.1% below June...
Rings, Bells, Blocks. Dr. Gesell discovered that all infants unfold in a strict pattern of activity. He developed a number of delicate tests which normal babies should be able to pass at a given age. If a baby deviates from the biological schedule, Dr. Gesell claims that a doctor can tell that something is wrong. The tests take only ten to 20 minutes, can be easily mastered by all doctors. They require such simple equipment as colored rings, a rattle, blocks, a pellet and bottle, a bell, a string, paper and crayon, etc. A few examples of normal behavior...
...more simple and pious days. . . . The girl of today is as free and uncontrolled as her brother. Nowadays the sexes are almost equal in their opportunities for amusements, occupations and freedom of action in general. When women as a whole were kept in the home and subjected to strict discipline, either by fathers and mothers or by their husbands, there was not so much difference relatively between their life at home and the life of the cloister. Time has changed all that, and girls who enter Religion now show a courage and spirit of self-sacrifice which is truly notable...
...knew how it would be enforced. Because dealers feared losing customers, it took General Electric six months, many a hot sales talk, to cut refrigerator payment periods from 36 to 30 months. If the big installment lenders (like Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, General Motors Acceptance Corp.) get too strict, thousands of banks and small credit men stand ready to steal their business with more liberal terms...