Word: tightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own. One Chicago judge ordered a landlord to tear down a building listed in the News series, and show the court a picture of the empty lot or face a $2,200 fine. As a result of the News series, a bill before the state legislature to tighten up housing laws now seemed certain to pass. Said one of the 250 letters of praise the paper received from its readers: "When the power of the press is used to benefit humanity . . . it renews the humble reader's faith in that great freedom...
Boxing officials and supporters yesterday opposed plans to tighten the rules on the sport in Massachusetts. One asserted proposed changes were planned only to "fool the television audience." That assertion came from Tommy Rawson, who was the referee in the Tommy Collins-Jimmy Carter lightweight championship bout last month...
...Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, said yesterday that defense mobilization officials are studying proposed changes to tighten draft deferments for college students...
...hardened, under the influence of the Government's higher interest rates on its new bonds (TIME, April 20). New York banks raised the interest on prime (i.e., the best credit rating) loans from 3% to 3¼%, the highest rate in 19 years. The effect will be to tighten up on consumer credit. In short, at a time when tighter credit might cause a slowing up of sales, the steel price rise made it harder to cut prices, if necessary, to keep goods moving...
...first quarter, to a rate of $304 billion v. $288 billion in the 1952 period. Nevertheless, some economists worried about the "danger" of consumer credit, which is now at an alltime peak of $24 billion. Many a lender, notably the Bank of America, biggest in the world, began to tighten up on small loans, as businessmen talked of a possible recession if an end to the Korean war brought sharp cutbacks in rearmament orders...