Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recovery: in the first two months of 1953, its imports from EPU nations exceeded its exports by $67 million. France is in direr straits and $625 million in debt to EPU; there is strong talk of a new devaluation of the franc. Rome and Paris had both threatened to tighten import regulations to get themselves out of their jam. By making it easier for them to earn sterling, Butler may induce them to change their minds...
...possible use of the system: radio programs can be recorded, then expanded or compressed to fit their allotted time. Music, too-at least popular music-is easy to tighten up. Fairbanks went to work on Singer Rosemary Clooney's record of Come On-a My House and cut it by 30%. Many listeners agreed that both words and music had been improved. "Rosemary," explains the professor, "is very compressible...
James D. Zellerbach, chairman of the National Manpower Council, urged in a radio address last night that the president tighten up the draft regulations which permit boys deferred for college under the 2A status to escape service by marrying and having children before they graduate...
...longer-term securities should discourage commercial borrowing, thus tighten up on credit, restrict inflation. Investors other than banks should be lured by their higher interest rates, hence fewer Government securities will be available as cash with which to expand bank lending. And the Federal Reserve System, which in the past was kept busy pouring support money into the U.S. bond market to keep it steady for new issues, will be freer to make major anti-inflationary moves...
...going to produce the necessary men, we will have to tighten deferments all down the line." He quickly added that possible policy changes are still in the planning stage, and can only be effected by a Presidential Executive Order...