Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time the Farm Bureau's Edward Asbury O'Neal III, the National Grange's Albert S. Goss and the representatives of smaller farm pressure groups were smugly confident they could put through a broad-beam farm program of their own. In the new Congress they counted on a bigger, friendlier farm bloc. They knew the country, desperately in need of more food, was hardly disposed to much argument about ways of getting it. And their onetime friend and present opponent, the Agriculture Department, was scared and two-minded about policies...
...half of him on the Court, leave half in the Senate, where Jimmy had been a super-politician, a knowing, super-successful leader. Now Franklin Roosevelt had called Jimmy off the bench and installed him in a White House office as Director of Economic Stabilization with such broad authority that only Franklin Roosevelt remained more powerful. Perhaps Franklin Roosevelt now wished he were a super-Solomon and could divide Jimmy into three...
...million details which range from the imposition of a broad fiscal policy down to reducing the number of milk deliveries; it calls for action in any sudden civilian crisis (such as the Eastern fuel shortage), involves umpiring any major dispute between warring Government agencies. It touches U.S. economic life at its periphery and at its core, in a year when that life is rolling along at the fastest clip in history...
...broad outlines of the U.S. wartime economic policy were already drawn when Jimmy Byrnes took his job: ceilings on prices, rents (in defense areas), wages, salaries and profits; rationing of critical commodities; increased taxation and encouragement of saving. As the nation's pay envelope grew bigger & bigger, as the bulging of the nation's arsenal cut production of civilian goods more & more, the problem was reduced to one of crucial simplicity: now there are shortages of everything except money...
...start the experiment in September of that year. With the effective cooperation of the faculties of the Business School, the Economics Department, and the Littauer School, the hoped-for, broader approach to trade union administration is being attempted. The influence of this triumvirate arrangement is readily seen in the broad make-up of the curriculum offered to the Fellows...