Word: straitjackets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army is regimented," he said, "business is in a straitjacket . . . Government has usurped the decisions which formerly were made by individuals and regulated by economic laws . . . There has been an increasing tendency on the part of the Government to decide what is good and what is bad for all of us ... Government decides what is and what is not restraint of trade for business, but very carefully avoids deciding what is or what is not restraint of trade when applied to labor unions and other political blocs. "Do not think that the use of this power is only sought...
Just Hang On. When Brand began his experiment, he hid the straitjackets to keep other attendants from using them. Now, he says with a grin, he has forgotten where he hid them. There is also less need, he finds, for "chemical restraint" (sedative drugs). When a new patient arrives, often in a straitjacket, Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever...
Back home after two years, he was elected checkweighman and disputes agent for his union. During the General Strike of 1926 he first showed his political mettle. In Tredegar the General Strike is still known as "Bevan's Siege." "They had the whole town in a straitjacket," recalls a Tredegar shopkeeper...
...itself of wartime controls as a giant might escape from a straitjacket-roaring, ripping and kicking, with little regard for himself or the bystanders. Nevertheless, Gulliver, freed, defeated most of the Blefuscudians -the shortages of foods & goods. And the great drop in Government spending ($45 billion less than in 1945) was made up by private spending. U.S. retail sales reached a record of $96 billion; $105 billion was poured out in wages & salaries, and net corporate profits totaled an estimated $12 billion, some 20% more than 1944's record high. Farmers raised the most profitable crop in history...
...Chances. Can the Russian people ultimately break through the straitjacket which these men so carefully, so busily stitch for them? Last week brought signs that the Kremlin was still able to tend to the people's minimum needs. So long as it does, the 193,000,000 Russians are most unlikely to revolt. As to the long future, the American who knows Soviet Russia best has this...