Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should the U. S. tighten trade embargoes against Japan? Said Banker Lamont: "A private citizen not familiar with all the factors would not for a moment presume to suggest detailed measures to the Administration whose foreign policy along this line has been so carefully developed." Nevertheless, he pointed out inconsistencies and omissions in U. S. embargoes that still permitted Japan to get war supplies...
...United States peers out into the future, its leaders attempt to find security not only in rearmament and conscription, but in carefully cultivated friendship with Latin America. More and more men will go South to find a career, as cultural exchange increases and trade-nets tighten. Clearly it is a function of a wide-awake college to offer such individuals the chance to prepare themselves. And it is equally clear that, as this new world opens beyond our shores, it is the University's duty to be ready and willing to educate all interested in these peoples and their ways...
...Crown, the titular head of their Government is the King's representative, the Governor General. Last year, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Canada, they arranged that the next occupants of Rideau Hall, the Governor General's mansion, should be someone who could tighten the allegiance to the Crown-preferably Royalty. After the death of popular Baron Tweedsmuir, the Duke of Devonshire turned down the job. Last April it was given to Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, who is known to his elder sister. Queen Mary, as "Algie...
...Shorell claims that his operation is unique, for most plastic surgeons, he says, only tighten skin, pay little attention to sagging muscles, thus leave their patients with a masklike expression. Face-lifting is done under a local anesthetic, lasts about an hour and a half, is practically bloodless. Patients usually leave the hospital in four days, some of them wearing hats with veils or scarves tied under the chin to hide the scars. Only painful part of the operation is the bill, which may run anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000, depending on what a patient...
Reason for the slide was the news that Britain would tighten her controls over foreign exchange. Late last month her new rules went into effect. No Briton can now export rubber, tin, Scotch whiskey, jute or furs to the U. S. unless he is paid either 1) in dollars, or 2) in sterling bought at the official Norman rate. Since these products are an important share of British ex ports to the U. S., practically dominate the U. S. supply for them, many a U. S. importer had no further use for free sterling, deserted the Black Bourse...