Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total national income in 1942 will be $103 billion (at February's price level). Of that $103 billion, they guess, the nation will have $55 billion to spend, with almost nothing to spend it on. Of this, taxes will sop up about $18 billion, savings and investments will absorb another $20 billion. The $17 billion that remains is the dangerous "wild money" which will roll around the china shop like a bull, crashing through prices, breaking up ceilings and walls, unless the Government finds a way to ring its nose. And to complicate matters a large part of this...
North of the border, relations between the Irish and the predominantly Midwestern U.S. troops were somewhat strained. Illogical to the Irish mind was the troops' complaining of the lack of supplies while they absorb all the surpluses in sight, especially beer. Stopped by a small-town constable for passing a red light, a U.S. trooper rudely exclaimed: "I've never seen traffic lights in a cemetery before." Another, asked his opinion of Irish girls, glumly replied: "At home, we bury our dead." The Irish have a tendency to resent such-remarks. When a U.S. technician...
Great Britain itself has trained the leading Indian politicians in British universities to absorb British ideas of Freedom and Democracy...
...School of Humanities will absorb the old School of Letters (literature and languages), include arts, history, languages and literature, speech and drama, music, philosophy. Cutting across department lines, it will have a basic course devoted to "study of man as a rational and artistic being seeking to understand himself and the universe in which he lives...
...Bill Batt announced that U.S. manganese output for 1943 will be stepped up 1,400% over 1940 (to 600,000 tons a year) by developing high-cost mines in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nevada. The Government will absorb the excess price, sell the metal to fabricators at what imported concentrate would cost them...