Word: wringers
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...industry knows that it is due to go through an economic wringer. Furriers made the most of the easy-money period during the war and immediately afterwards. When OPA controls came off, prices of luxury furs doubled; medium-priced furs went up 50%. The buying rush has come to an abrupt end because of 1) the unseasonable warm weather, 2) fur imports from abroad, and 3) buyers' resistance to the high prices...
...Jack-of-many-deals, he operated in real estate, films, aircraft promotion. Twice in nine years he put himself through the bankruptcy wringer for a loss to his creditors of more than $600,000. Yet he had been able to worm himself into Government jobs that opened up new fields for his operations...
...invaded the state, asked Nebraska Republicans to repudiate old-line, isolationist Senator Hugh Butler, and give the G.O.P. senatorial nomination to liberal Governor Dwight Griswold. The result: a landslide for Butler. Had presidential aspirant Stassen dived under a steamroller or just got his finger caught in a wringer...
...final bill totaled $2,500,000 (over & above $869,000 paid out earlier). Judge Leibell, who had appointed some of the lawyers, snorted: "Fantastic, grossly excessive." He cranked the fees through the wringer, squeezed them to $1,200,000. When they are paid by Associated Gas & Electric's successor, the General Public Utilities Corp., the reorganization will be officially...
...might still all opposition, since no voice would dare cry out against an imperial prince. Such a move would also make it impossible for the imperial family to evade responsibility for ultimate defeat. Or the last-minute choice might be someone else. Japan was going through the political wringer-probably not for the last time before the war ends...