Word: tightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a growing feeling at Treasury and at the Federal Reserve Board that the 4¼% limit will have to be raised by Congress, even though economists and businessmen worry that raising the rate would cause a general rise in long-term rates and tighten money enough to choke off gains in business. Finding a solution to the Treasury's problems cannot wait much longer. In July the Treasury will have to borrow additional billions. A sudden sharp contraction in the stock market might conceivably cause a shift back into bonds, but nobody regards that as a real...
Cheerful, chunky (5 ft. 5 in., 196 lbs.) Democrat DiSalle, a man of notable affability even in his harried term (1950-52) as President Truman's Price Administrator, is determined not to fail. Already he has irritated educators, businessmen and politicians with a tighten-up-and-tax budget. And last week he incurred the wrath of Ohio's powerful A.F.L.-C.I.O., which backed him heavily in his campaign last fall...
...remedy all this, Mao and his colleagues brusquely ordered local Communist cadres "to tidy up the people's communes" before mid-April, when Red China's 1959 economic plan must be approved by the nation's pseudo-parliament. To acquire the additional activists desperately needed to tighten up government control over the communes, the Chinese Communist Party has recruited an estimated 1,000,000 new members in the last five months. Mao has also thrown into the communes army units of up to division strength to lend a hand with plowing, irrigation projects, training of technicians...
...Premier and Foreign Minister, H. C. (for Hans Christian) Hansen, to vast Brazil's powerful, unbending War Minister and possible presidential candidate, Henrique Teixeira Lott. But for all their differences, they had one thing in common: all were friends of the U.S., and they meant their visits to tighten the ties...
...hateful or tearful, but his gentle hand reaches for Christ's in a gesture of sympathy. The ironclad warrior, who is about to jam the huge prongs upon Christ's head, seems caught up and driven by some outward imperative of duty even as his lips tighten in remorse. The bulldog-faced assailant who tears at Christ's robe might also be gesturing in supplication. The German scholar Wilhelm Franger contends that Bosch was really a free-spirited nature worshiper; if so, the message of The Crowning might be that man acts through compulsions that are beyond...