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Word: strictly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substitute for the arms embargo if the embargo were beaten. But Pittman was now anxious to shut off futile chitchat, limit debate, get on to perfecting and passing the bill. To this end Pittman moved to speed the legislation by scrapping the controversial go-day credit provision, substituting strict cash-on-the-barrelhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Administrator Williams promptly put the University on a strict six-months' probation, refrained from blacklisting it entirely only because the University's new board of supervisors and Acting President Hebert appeared to be making an honest effort to clean house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kickback | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...scarcity of pig (price $22.50) have been the railroads and other sellers of its rival raw material, scrap, who have put the price up to $26 a ton (Aug. 31 price: $15.25). At $26, sheet mills are buying bundles of scrapped sheets which they must re-roll to strict specifications to sell for only $7 to $8 more. Rail mills are buying scrap to go into rail selling for only $14 more. Small steel companies, buying nearly all their scrap have already passed $5 of this scrap advance on to their customers, are unable to get enough raw material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boom | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...thick were war spectres in committee meetings that the pension ghost could hardly edge in. Chief concerns of the convention were strict neutrality and preparedness. Officially the embargo fight was left to Congress, though a random poll of 423 Legionnaires showed that 66% were opposed to the act as it stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: No Seven-Toed Pete | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...strict identities, as twain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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