Word: allocatees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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* By ancient prerogative, the King shares ownership of Thames swans between Southwark Bridge and Henley with two City companies - the Worshipful Companies of Dyers and Vintners. Each July, in ceremonies known as "swan-upping," swan markers round up the flocks and allocate the young cygnets. One nick is made in...
Curb or Cure. The Administration's specialists, testifying before congressional committees last week, argued that the way to stop inflation was first to control exports and allocate scarce materials to the most essential users. As insurance against a future turn for the worse, they also recommended price, wage and...
Three-Way Attack. Then the President switched themes. He proposed an assault on the inflationary spiral from three sides. To relieve the inflationary pressure of too much loose cash, he asked that consumer credit controls (abandoned Nov. 1) be restored, that speculation on the commodity exchanges be limited, and that...
EGA for ERP. It was generally agreed that there should be a separate body set up to administer the European Recovery Program. Three different groups had plans for such a body: the State Department, the Herter Committee, the Harriman Committee. On basic principles, they saw eye to eye. The boss...
The oil pinch was on. The first to sound the alarm last week was Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.'s A. L. Nickerson, who warned that fuel oil might be so short this winter that it would have to be rationed in the East. Said Nickerson: "The consuming public [should...