Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authorities watch the incoming flood of misery with a feeling of helpless dismay. The refugees cannot be housed or adequately fed. They add to the misery, starvation and chaos of Nationalist China. In the North, the Reds still tighten the screws, drive more millions on to the bitter roads of China...
...compromises would remove educational institutions from threats of penalties and tighten up the conditions under which instructors would be penalized. Under the original Barnes Bill, employment of those adhering to Communist principles even in non-teaching positions constituted a violation...
Police yesterday acted on several leads to tighten their not around two Coop bandits still at large while the Cambridge District Court slapped $50,000 bail on a newly-arrested suspect...
...Kleberg thinks Americans can tighten their belts to help feed the world, because: "We eat too much anyway, especially bread. If necessary we can eat more potatoes, rice or other types of starch, to save wheat. At any rate, we should waste less." But he does not think that renewed controls would increase the food supply, because "you don't get more food by restrictions." In the present atmosphere of uncertainty of what the Government intends to do about meat, cattlemen cannot plan ahead. "It takes four years to make a steer," said Kleberg. "That requires some long-range...
...Tighten up on inflationary bank credit by dropping the Administration's cheap money policy and letting interest rates rise...