Word: tying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white tie...
...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...Angeles: Shippers hoped that their Chamber of Commerce would take over U. S. coastwise vessels to forestall a tie-up of cotton, citrus fruits, petroleum, exports...
...that it looked as if the only people who had not known just what was going to happen were the statesmen of England and France. Soon after Munich, Gilbert Redfern, Warsaw correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, predicted: "Within a year or so we will see a Russian-German tie-up, or Russia will retire to her fastnesses," and the New York Time's Walter Duranty wrote: "There is no reason to believe that Russia would refuse collaboration with Germany." On January 18 the Daily News Syndicate reported from London that Berlin was envisaging economic and military collaboration with...
...forcing agriculture to recognize that its continental market is gone. The new German-Russian agreement ends hope of the U. S. regaining its lost German markets for cotton and foodstuffs, may mean that U. S. trade will be squeezed out of Central Europe altogether. Germany's new economic tie-up with Russia might enable her to reduce her 1938 purchases here ($107,588,000, down from an average of $400,364,000 in 1926-30) to zero. Perhaps more important to U. S. trade was what the crisis did to the British pound. The precipitate markdown in the price...