Word: allot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the big danger of overexpanded consumer credit is not only that people will find it impossible to meet payments on their debts. A worse danger is that in time of declining incomes, consumers will be forced to allot so much money to paying off their debts that they will have little left over for other buying. That would dry up purchases and shut down factories and hasten a recession...
...foresaw all kinds of abuses: bootlegging in G.G., racketeering with worthless substitutes, faking measles to wangle a shot of G.G. in areas where it is not being given-for polio. This expert's solution: declare a national emergency, giving the Government a monopoly of blood and blood products; allot G.G. only to areas with the worst epidemics; let a public authority (not pharmacists) dispense it for doctors to inject...
...night session the French National Assembly voted, 414 to 177, over Communist opposition, to allot 743 billion francs ($2,115,000,000) to military expenditure in 1951. NATO officials calculated that, with other rearmament expenditures not shown in the budget, France would spend $2,600,000,000 (11% of the gross national product) on defense. A¶fter sitting on its hands for two months, Italy's Senate passed a new defense bill (TIME, March 19) to spend an additional 250 billion lire ($400 million) to modernize the nation's armed forces, bring them up to treaty strength...
...between tomorrow and 1984-and the teen-age girls are being trained for "State Service" under socialism. The Misses Edge and Baker, who run the school, are plain and loveless. Since their authority and comfort are all they have, and all that life and their government are apt to allot them, they spend their time trying to expand the first and deepen the second. They tipple sherry and sneak smokes, their word is law, and all seems for the best in the best of possible worlds. Nonetheless, they have their trials. For one thing, two of the girls have slipped...
...Ordered suppliers of cadmium (used for electroplating other metals) to fill no more than 50% of their defense orders on hand, allot the rest to essential civilian use until a long-range cadmium program is drawn up. Reason: cadmium is in such short supply that defense orders alone would easily gobble up more of the metal than is now available...