Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unable to operate at a profit, closed their mills. In San Luis 1,000 desperate workers seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...
...announcing his intention to cancel this year's reading, Professor Copeland said, "The attention of our young men in taken up with the most important things in the world. I don't think the young men will have the time or inclination for such things...
...professional baseball's one-man judge, jury and police force, Judge Landis had the power to cancel a World Series, banish an owner or manager, void any deal at any time. Truculent, profane, razor-sharp, he had only to look down his nose to make everybody hop. Most times they didn't like it, but his kind of tyrannical power was good for the game, and baseballers knew...
...aged 17 to 20 who are not yet subject to the draft (as contrasted with the U.S., already calling up 1 8-year-olds). And its population increase supplies a new class of 200,000 to 250,000 spring-legged fanatical recruits each year -more than enough to cancel combat losses on the 1941-44 scale...
...must, he said, do certain things to give other nations complete confidence in the dollar (which is to be the key currency), such as: cancel all World War I debts ($14,256,000,000); repeal the Johnson Act; repeal all silver-purchase legislation; repeal the Gold Reserve Act amendments allowing the Treasury to trade in gold at other than the official rate of $35 per ounce; free the dollar of all exchange controls. Other items: the U.S. must also incidentally balance the federal budget, and, of course, must avoid both a postwar boom or a depression...