Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using military terminology and foreshadowing regimentation of the Communist Party tighter than ever, Stalin described Russia's 3,500 most prominent Communists as the "general staff," their 35,000 immediate Communist subordinates as "party officers," and the next immediate 125,000 subordinates as "noncommissioned officers" of the remaining 1,800,000 party members in Russia. Tactful Generalissimo Stalin did not call these "soldiers...
...subway crush in which everyone gets on the other's feet. Great Democrat Adolf Hitler recently described Germany as ''the perfect Democracy." Great Democrat Joseph Stalin recently gave his Soviet Union what he called "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World," then riveted his dictatorship tighter by the shooting of 13 Old Bolsheviks (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante...
...anxious to convince him that the pardon is authentic, Eddie shoots him. The chaplain stays on his feet long enough to call, "I'm not hit. Open the gates." Thus is the structure-laid for a crescendo seldom excelled in hoodlum stories since Public Enemy. Within its tighter limits You Only Live Once has a signature of realism no less stark and confident than the famed Warner Bros, story. It presents in addition its own modest problem in sociology: has the State a right to punish a man for a crime committed due to pressure put upon him through...
...easy money policy. Easy money means cheap financing, government as well as corporate. And a $1,900,000,000 cushion of excess reserves guarantees low interest rates and high bond prices for some time to come. Nevertheless, to squash any widespread notion that it was deliberately moving for tighter money, the Board took pains to state that its move was an anti-inflationary step offering "further encouragement to sound business recovery and confidence in the long-term investment market...
...called "independent" U. S. oil companies, last week reported 1935 sales of $295,000,000, a 10% increase over the previous year. But Texaco's profits more than tripled, increasing from $5,545,000 in 1934 to $17,065,000 in 1935. Higher prices, fewer gasoline wars, tighter control over production and record oil consumption helped Texaco as well as the rest of the industry. Shell Union Oil, U. S. affiliate of Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch-Shell and the only company besides Texaco that distributes in every state in the Union, lately reported a spectacular jump...