Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Steel formula, for 16 months the Administration's chief bulwark against inflation, had all its underpinnings knocked out last week. Like all political structures, it did not immediately fall. The two big questions for all citizens...
Once the committee reports, the nation will get another shot of "controlled inflation." The Administration will probably permit a general wage increase of 6 or 7%, will then try to hold that line with some new bulwark. The new wages will add nearly $5,000,000,000 to the nation's payroll, will give the cost of living another boost by raising purchasing power and manufacturing costs (e.g., the Lewis raise will force coal prices up an estimated...
...importance of the actions. He knows that Bougainville is the last barrier to the southeast of Rabaul; and Rabaul is the main bulwark to the south of Japan's Pearl Harbor, the naval base of Truk...
...vision: "When the time comes, there must first be agrarian reform, an end of landless peasants and great estates. The economy of Italy might well be patterned after that of prewar Czecho-Slovakia. A thriving Catholic nation of small landowners and busy workers is the best bulwark against communism...
...than our school system. . . . We cannot afford an ill-educated electorate . . . the movies, the radio, the press, and the advertisements . . . play up and down on the child's nerves . . . apply to him that most insidious of regimentations, mass anesthesia. Against this deadly passivity, our schools are the only bulwark...