Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bluff and Bombers. Meanwhile, Dictator Stalin suddenly brought down Russia's fist upon Estonia. This prosperous little Baltic state flanks the sea approach to Leningrad, where the Red Navy is frozen up tight at least three months of each year, and its capital, Tallinn, is an ice-free port. On the pretext that the Estonian Government recently "allowed" an interned Polish submarine to chug out of Tallinn and become a commerce raider-actually it shot its way out, fired upon by harbor batteries (TIME, Oct. 2)-the Moscow press and radio have been violently attacking Estonia as "hostile...
Military Dictatorship. To keep a tight grip on Rumania and pursue the Iron Guard to extinction, King Carol quickly formed a new Cabinet headed by General George Argeseanu, Commander of the Second Army Corps, as Premier. His Majesty's close personal friend, General Ion Ileus, became War Minister and General Gabriel Marinescu was put in charge of the police as Minister of Interior...
...biggest danger of tight bottlenecks is that the bottle may explode. The necessity of using obsolete equipment raises costs, prices begin to pyramid, and panicked customers overbuy. The result is often an inventory depression. Example: 1937. For this among other reasons many a businessman last week had his fingers crossed about a war boom. One of U. S. industry's most influential spokesmen, President Howard Coonley of National Association of Manufacturers (also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of American Standards Association, which is trying to eliminate bottlenecks by promoting standardization) took time out to broadcast : ". . . We have no illusions...
...spent sweeping spider webs out of high-cost idle factories, oil and repairs have to be lavished on obsolete machinery. At such times as the present, orders can be delivered no faster than the economic assembly line is able to move through U. S. industry's many tight spots and bottlenecks...
...Epping (now, happily, First Lord of the Admiralty) may well rejoice that he represented a constituency which TIME did not "mispronounce" (TIME, Sept. 4). The "Tight Little Islanders" from Torquay to Tynemouth pronounce Tewkesbury "Tschewksbry" - but never "Tooksbroo" as TIME'S esteemed Editors point...