Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad reorganization wringer squeezed tighter last week. Stockholders in two once-bankrupt carriers saw their chances of participating in juicy war profits gurgle down the drain. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision barring any revision of ICC's plan to streamline the financial structure of the Chicago & North Western Railway. A Federal court in New Haven approved, with slight modifications, ICC's amputation of the top-heavy debt of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad...
...Fred Riebel had tried to wriggle out of the strait jacket, but he was soon laced in tighter than ever by the rough & tumble Brewster union. He had no time to untangle the materials mess Result: Brewster failed in production on the Navy's Corsair fighter, although production of the so-so Brewster dive-bomb er picked up. In August, month of Brewster's latest strike, not a Corsair was delivered...
...died at one of the most uncertain moments in a rule plagued by internal violence and external pressure. His alliance with the Axis, signed in 1941, had gained for Bulgaria portions of Greece and Yugoslavia. It had cost thousands of casualties in Balkan guerrilla fighting. It had meant tighter belts so that Germans could have more of Bulgaria's wheat and potatoes. As the German lines sagged in Russia and the Mediterranean, Berlin demanded greater help from Sofia...
...Time Has Come. Some Sicilians warned their visitors that Fascismo on the mainland was in much tighter control than it was on the island. If so, Fascismo in Italy was certainly worried. Fascist Editor Roberto Farinacci cried out against nincompoop generals and flabby dignitaries in the Mussolini hierarchy. The people were told that Germany could not spare planes or men for Italy from the Russian front. Mussolini extended the zone of military rule to the two southern provinces opposite Sicily...
Civilians & Cotton. As with every other shortage, greedy civilians, moving in on low prices, made the cotton pinch tighter...