Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive to cut Britain's foreign trade deficit, Cripps plans to tighten up the national diet from 2,870 to 2,700 calories a day (U.S. average: 3,450). Standing as far as possible from Marie Antoinette, Cripps drily said: "The public must expect many fewer and much less attractive cakes and buns." He has eliminated all imports of U.S. tobacco, and faced a storm of protest over the ban on gasoline for pleasure driving. This issue brought the Labor Government close to defeat last week in Parliament: at a very late session, when many weary Laborites had gone...
...Evening Standard, which had spurned the vows of secrecy imposed on every other paper, printed a picture purporting to be Elizabeth's wedding dress. It showed only three vague swatches of material draped over a couch, leaving a breathless public in no way wiser, but Elizabeth determined to tighten security measures even further...
...Tighten Taps...
...million tons in grain alone. If scarcity of U.S. corn meant that farmers would turn to wheat to feed their hogs and cattle, the gap would increase by another two million tons. The committee counted on other exporting nations to boost their quotas, on hungry Europeans to tighten up on their own food-collection systems...
...Taft could read the signs. He still hoped to tighten the bill with amendments restricting industrywide bargaining and requiring all union welfare funds (such as the U.M.W.'s) to be administered by employers as well as union officials. But he had backed down on his amendment allowing employers to go directly to a federal court for injunctions, instead of through the NLRB...