Word: vise
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...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...
...vast Palau fleet basin. But airfields in the southern Palaus would serve: 1) for bombing the Philippines-if MacArthur invaded the central Philippines instead of Mindanao, Peleliu would be closer to the invasion coast than Morotai; 2) for air patrols which could clamp the northern Palaus in a neutralizing vise. Last week marine flyers based on Peleliu were already strafing and bombing Babelthuap...