Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy, although observers say that Powers might settle for a "no-fire, limited-hire" program. As employees drop from the payroll through death or resignation, the job simply will not be refilled. Obviously, exceptions are necessary: for indispensable officials, and for city departments that already operate on a relatively tight budget...
...York, a fact that made his tenseness all the more noticeable. At a first-day press conference in the Shoreland Hotel ballroom he irritated reporters by parrying the political questions. Finally a newsman asked if he was trying to duck questions about his presidential ambitions. Said a withdrawn, tight-lipped Rocky: "No, but it's tiresome...
...role as one of Britain's most influential style setters, Princess Margaret set stylish maids and matrons agog by a radical change of hairdo. Almost flapperish, the new do features tight rolls by the ears, an arcing lock of hair across the forehead. Making one of her first public appearances in her changed coiffure, Margaret, 29, went stomping at London's Savoy Hotel with Bachelor Farmer Alan Godsal, 33, who carries the title of High Sheriff of Berkshire. After losing an open-toe slipper on the dance floor, Margaret smiled impishly while Godsal, crimson with embarrassment, retrieved...
...best hotels this week strolled 6,000 men who know the value of money. For the delegates to the annual convention of the American Bankers Association, the subject came as natural as breathing. Among them there was a strong note of worry. Reason: money has become so tight that the situation has raised grave questions for the bankers-and for the U.S. How much higher will interest rates go? How long will the pinch last? Will money become so tight that it will"choke off the boom...
...after the steel strike is over and companies start building inventories and go to the banks to borrow." Said Russell H. Eichman, vice president of Cleveland's Central National Bank: "If the steel strike requires a slowing up of auto sales, that in itself will automatically ease the tight money situation." Said Scott L. Moore, president of the American National Bank of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: "I think the tight money situation will last another six to eight months. Right now merchants in my town are borrowing money for income tax purposes...