Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honolulu went mica tape, samples of rayon, gold-plated watch bands, wedding-announcement cards, a tube of radioactive phosphorus, brake cable, auto gears...
Painful as it may be to taxpayers, the 1941 bill falls short of providing an effective brake on inflation. It will bring the Treasury some $13,000,000.000 in all. The Government will spend at least $22,000,000,000 in fiscal 1942-maybe a lot more. To preserve the Treasury's hoped-for ratio of 2-to-1 between money raised by taxation and money borrowed, revenues would have to be nearer...
...well aware of U.A.W.'s key position is John L. Lewis. While C.I.O. President Philip Murray lay convalescing from overwork and nervous exhaustion, John Lewis moved in on U.A.W. with the stealth of an elephant crashing through a cane brake...
...people couldn't read. His concern, Park-In Theatres, Inc., headed by Cousin Warren Willis Smith, is collecting 5% of all the Drive-In Theaters' weekly gross. Vice president in charge of manufacturing of R. M. Hollingshead Corp., world's largest makers of automotive polishes, enamels, brake fluids, etc., Hollingshead worked out the Drive-in Theater idea by asking himself in the early days of the late depression what luxuries people would give up last. Automobiles and movies were his answer. Put together they spelled Drive...
Such terms undoubtedly would brake credit sales, have a healthy deflationary effect. But the resolution was only a suggestion: no credit man last week knew how it would be enforced. Because dealers feared losing customers, it took General Electric six months, many a hot sales talk, to cut refrigerator payment periods from 36 to 30 months. If the big installment lenders (like Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, General Motors Acceptance Corp.) get too strict, thousands of banks and small credit men stand ready to steal their business with more liberal terms...