Word: vise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, thousands of old decrees and vise-tight police controls left Brazilian social and economic distress unrelieved. Rents continued to rise like the new skyscrapers. And still unsolved were the massive problems of feeding the people, stopping inflation...
...April 29, 1944, the corner seemed vise tight. General Foods, Rice and their cohorts had May futures contracts calling for delivery of 5.7 million bu. of rye. But there were only 4.2 million bu. of rye available in Chicago. Speculators who had sold rye short, gambling that the price would drop before they had to deliver, scurried for cover. They had to find rye or pay through the nose...
...Dewey, whose control of the state's Republican machine is just about vise-tight, was off on a tour of county fairs and party clambakes. He was acting precisely like a governor about to be renominated, which he is sure to be. Democratic U.S. Senator Jim Mead, whose war profits investigating committee had just about run out of headlines, was keeping in training by making speeches. He was acting exactly like a man who is going to be nominated for governor, which he is almost sure to be; the Democrats are stuck with their war-fraud investigator whether they...
Into the oval, colonial-style conference room in Ottawa's Parliament Building strode nine determined members of the Canadian Congress of Labor's potent Wage Committee. Before bustling, bumbling Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, they laid a demand that the Government relax its vise-tight wage control. The C.C.L.'s potent argument: the wave of strikes which threatens Canada...
...back of the engine, Alonzo Wilson, a New York City Negro, woke up to a nightmare of din and confusion. In one flashing instant before the lights went out he saw his wife and baby daughter crushed to death between seats that moved together like the jaws of a vise. Somehow, they were the only persons killed. But 23 were injured...