Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caleb A. Smith, instructor of Economics, contradicted foes of price control who assert that increased production will hold the price line, by pointing out that manufacturers will more likely hold back on their goods, waiting for higher prices, as they...
...call attention to a significant omission from Mr. Murray's letter. He does not defend the practices which this bill would prohibit. He does not assert that it is right that unions should practice robbery or extortion by violence in commerce. He does not argue that it is right for unions to paralyze the nation or a community by pulling the switches and closing down essential utilities without notice...
Permanent Possession. In the Pacific, complexities were almost as numerous as the flyspeck islands. The U.S. wanted to draw a military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
...Senate, with its usual unhurried intent to assert itself as the "senior" body, took a different approach. OPA was to die a lingering death, with subsidies continued until May, 1947, and with no automatic abolishment of controls until a special three-man board had reviewed the problem for each specific item. But then the upper chamber lent an ear to the lobbies. New England's dairy groups, the Midwest meat-producers, and the Senators from the oil states put in a specific ban against price ceilings on any of their products. There was still a ceiling, but the most important...
...Said Ben Franklin: "It is unreasonable what some assert, 'that printers ought not to print anything but what they approve'; since if all of that business should make such a resolution, and abide by it, an end would thereby be put to free writing, and the world would afterwards have nothing to read but what happened to be the opinions of printers...