Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average sale price to his 1943 level. Some shirt and suit makers had made high-priced items, because the profit was greater on them. Now, they said, they could not buy fabrics to make low-priced items, thus could not sell their goods to retailers. Their solution: abolish...
...expand world markets. The proposals for an International Trade Organization (ITO) which the State Department's shrewd Will Clayton drafted months ago got full British support "on all important points." This global trade charter, sent last week to other nations for study, outlined plans to revise or abolish such trade restrictions as import quotas, export subsidies, tariff preferences, cartels and dumping schemes...
Everybody's doing it. Harvard plans to abolish the free elective system. Colgate has rebuilt its curriculum around a "core" of seven required courses. In Yale's "Experimental Program," students take prescribed courses for the first two years. The postwar educational models differ somewhat in chromium extras, but in one way all are alike: students will have less chance at the wheel than their immediate predecessors...
...Soviet plan may be said to have embraced concepts of an extensive revolution, or rather of a series of revolutions: extensive because it was expected that all over the globe irregular, chaotic explosions would occur. . . . What Stalin has done with the old concept has not been to abolish the revolutionary program: rather he has transformed the idea of an extensive revolution into one of an intensive revolution. Of course, the old system of capitalist economy and capitalist policy, he said, is everywhere ripe for destruction, but the forces of the governing classes are so strong that extensive eruptions have only...
...Railroads. In Potsdam the President had kept a close eye on the Pacific war reports and a guiding finger on domestic matters. During the week he: ¶Appointed St. Louis Banker John W. Snyder to be War Mobilization and Reconversion Director (see below). ¶ Asked Congress to abolish the three-man Surplus Property Board, put the job under one man (presumably Businessman William Stuart Symington III of St. Louis, his appointed chairman). ¶ Ordered the Petroleum Administration to take over and operate the strike-threatened (C.I.O.) butadiene plant of Sinclair Rubber Inc. at Houston. ¶Asked "any patriotic American...