Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speed Limit. Another provision of the revised price control act gave Anderson the power to rule which farm products are no longer in short supply and thus automatically force OPA to cancel ceilings on them. Last week he found that many commodities were in sufficient abundance for OPA control to be removed during September. Ceilings would come off 25 vegetables and fruits (fresh, frozen and canned...
Southern Cross. Because of its Negro player, Montreal had to cancel a Southern exhibition tour. But in the first game of the regular season Jackie belted four hits including a homer and he lost his jitters...
...outward appearances the anti-Lapham campaign was the idea of a 73-year-old, kewpie-like man named Henry F. Budde. Little Mr. Budde is the publisher of some weekly throwaways ("You can't cancel your subscription, he'll just throw it in your goddam living room") and a paper for municipal employes. He had been a salaryless park commissioner under Mayor Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with...
...problems could conceivably cancel each other out. If Argentina would not turn the $750 million into an interest-free loan, the British might let them use it to buy back the great, unprofitable network of British-owned railways which fan out across the pampas. Argentina would prefer the $750 million payoff in capital goods. One obvious British fear: that an industrialized Argentina would no longer complement Britain's economy...
...made a wave "interference" pattern. The experiment proved that, somehow, each electron went through both holes at once. The discovery, a great blow to the notion that matter is indivisible, led to the theory that a particle can be broken up into fields of energy which alternately reinforce and cancel each other, exactly like waves...