Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Factory and tenement poured forth their faithful proletarians. No one sang the Ça ira, no one screamed, "à la lanterne!" But horny fists were raised and Marxist throats intoned the Internationale. At Ivry-sur-Seine, across the high road from the south, rose a barrier of cars, trucks and packing boxes...
...also suggested that this self-imposed limitation would eventually break down. . . . As regards the Maginot Line-you will find that I took pains to correct the popular belief that it was "an impregnable barrier...
Even after war's end, Shanghai, greatest trading city in China, was cut off from foreign trade by a financial barrier as insurmountable as the Great Wall. Last week, TIME & LIFE Correspondent John Walker reported that this wall has finally been breached...
...Conservatives' Central Council he made the issue splendidly plain. Socialism now was not a radical specter with which to frighten commonsensical Britons at election time; it must be presented now as a bureaucratic barrier between Britons and the better life they wanted...
...excess-profits tax is a war measure which . . . in this period of reconstruction . . . is becoming a barrier to expanding employment." Therefore, to encourage greater production and full employment: 1) the 100% excess-profits tax would be reduced to 60% for all, and 2) removed entirely for some 12,000 of the smaller firms (those making less than $15,000 in excess profits...