Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen's Unions tied the plant up tight. Publisher William Vaughn Tanner was thereupon obliged to ''suspend indefinitely" (TIME...
Most piano companies are tight little family concerns, often officered by grandsons and great-grandsons of the founders, who look down their noses at the raucous upstarts of wind and string. There are 37 piano makers in the U. S. today. In Chicago, W. W. Kimball Co., which ranks high in dollar volume in the medium-price field, has the world's biggest piano and pipe organ factory, makes all its own parts instead of buying them from supply houses like most makers. Kimball sells to dealers on consignment, which is considered sharp practice by most piano...
...Food Industries this week Howard T. Greene, Wisconsin dairy manager, described a new method of packing cow's milk so that it keeps fresh much longer than usual. Instead of a paper cap in the bottle's mouth, a tight metal cap with gasket is used. Just before the cap is thrust home, live steam is introduced beneath it. This condenses in the bottle top, creating a partial vacuum. Packed in this way the milk keeps fresh for 48 hours at room temperature, six weeks in a refrigerator...
Your report in TIME, July 13, on the National Education Association meeting is a great improvement over your report on the St. Louis meeting, which reached low-water mark in selection of topics for reporting. As a member of the board of trustees, I think the reference to the "tight, autocratic board" is a fine compliment. We regard trust funds as trust funds and safeguard them accordingly...
Similar was the case in 1934. when NRA sent rank-&-filers trooping into the tight, little Amalgamated Union of Steel's aristocratic craftsmen. The young newcomers jolted Amalgamated's ineffectual old President Michael Francis Tighe out of his well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker's lot through an industry-wide strike. William Green rushed to Mike Tighe's side, helped him squelch this militant ardor, with the result that most of the newcomers quit the union in despair or disgust...