Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws mobilized 80,000,000 Germans behind the Army. In a series of drastic decrees, death by hanging was ordered for saboteurs, pillagers, arsonists, profiteers and loafers. Before officials could get the gallows up, one Johann Heinin was shot in Dessau for sabotage and in Stammheim Herman Weisser was beheaded for stealing shell parts. Income taxes were upped by 50%, taxes on beer and tobacco by 20%. The tax on radios was made practically confiscatory and the death penalty ordered for those caught listening to foreign broadcasts. Public dancing was prohibited as incompatible with the spirit of the times...
...suffered a heart attack. The hard-driving dictator, now 56, did not show up for the concluding review, same night ostentatiously appeared at an open-air opera. But the rumors persisted. For answering a query about them, Herbert-Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins, United Press man in Rome, got the most drastic punishment ever dealt a foreign correspondent, was expelled from the country on 24 hours' notice. The corrected story ran that Benito Mussolini, long suffering from stomach ulcers and farsightedness, had finally swallowed his vanity and been fitted for spectacles...
...reserves dwindled from $143,085,000 to $34,035,000. On top of this, an $85,000,000 loan is to mature in London next year. To save New Zealand's currency, early last winter Prime Minister Savage not only set up control of exchange but took the drastic step of restricting imports by 10%, announced that for the last half of 1939 imports would be restricted by 33⅓%. This move, although resulting in a more favorable trade balance, was deeply resented by British Empire manufacturers who had always had a free and open market in the Dominion...
...turbulent Federal Communications Commission. McNinch's assignment was a clean-up job supposed to last about three months. Under Cleaner-Upper McNinch, FCC has been more turbulent than ever. FCC Commissioners were at odds on its investigations into superpower and radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George Henry Payne and the Navy's Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, the Commission's only technical...
...Wohlthat was said to be impressed with Britain's changed "firm attitude" toward further aggression and to have expressed his fear of war. Secretary Hudson agreed, and then, as one economist to another, expounded the theory that only drastic financial measures could better the situation. Before they had talked for many hours, they had drafted an agreement, the gist of which was that in return for Adolf Hitler's good behavior Great Britain would see that Germany had access to world markets and to raw materials. To help the Third Reich turn its swords into plowshares an international...