Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decision. In jampacked Washington, harried Felix Finzel, a bus driver, pulled up to the curb, put on the emergency brake, got out and quit bus driving forever, leaving a busful of argumentative passengers to their own devices...
Early this spring a certain Robert R. Guthrie resigned from a WPB post because, he said, WPB $1-a-year men generally were putting a brake on all-out war production by resisting all-out conversion of civilian industries to war work. In particular, Guthrie named Philip D. Reed, $120,000-a-year chairman of General Electric, $1-a-year head of the Bureau of Industry Branches. WP Boss Donald Nelson, embarrassed by the fuss, asked the Truman Committee to investigate...
...grandnephew of famed General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, who made history by his fighting in the Thirty Years' War, which ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini for seven years...
Inflation control must hurt. Requiring a brake on demand, it necessitates a reduction of almost fifteen billions in the consumers' income, and only a program which siphons away the money that can bid up prices without increasing are taxation consumption can be effective. The methods are taxation and compulsory saving: taxation through a graduated downward extension of the income tax, compulsory saving through forced investment in public bonds. A jobs for the experts, such a program is primarily for economic control, not money raising. Effectively pursued it may save the nation, anything less will disrupt our entire economy...
...Japanese entered the Bay in force, the British cried out for U.S. naval help. Perhaps the U.S. had given that help without sending a ship into the Bay. The Pacific Fleet, based on Pearl Harbor, but continuously fanning out toward Japan's home waters, is always a brake on the Japanese Navy. If the U.S. Fleet tightened the brake a little, with a feint toward Jap waters, the Japanese may have had to pull their warships from the Bay of Bengal in a hurry...