Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of the world at war, Brazil has been suffering from inflation. Few weeks ago Dictator President Getulio Vargas decreed increases in nearly all wages. So that further price increases would not cancel wage hikes, Economic Coordinator João Alberto Lins de Barros fixed ceilings on all goods and transportation charges (as of Nov. 10). But, suspecting that ceilings alone would not do the trick, he took many other measures...
...persuaded the Army & Navy to do what they said when they said they would cancel new orders, however urgent, in labor-short areas. West Coast industry began believing when the slow-moving Navy pulled a big contract out of West Coast shipyards last month...
...shore up the potentially shaky British financial position, Mr. Fraser would: 1) grant a $5,000,000,000 gold credit to Britain, 2) formally cancel World War I war debts, 3) establish a five-year moratorium on Lend-Lease repayments...
...President's chair might utilize it to subvert most things that free men call desirable. But Professor Commager notes that over the course of the years legislatures have generally had their way. The Supreme Court has often declared a law unconstitutional only to have the sovereign people cancel out the "judicial nullification" by amendment, or by new law, or by judicial reversal obtained by the appointment of new judges, or by political pressure from the White House...
...were shaken by Howard Hughes's ice-cold confidence. They closely scrutinized all the plans, were assured by Expert Grover Loening, WPB's aviation adviser, that the ship was far in advance of anything he had seen. WPB's eye warmed up. It decided not to cancel the Kaiser-Hughes contract - at least, not immediately. But WPB also made it plain that it intends to keep an eagle eye on the supership, may yet cancel the contract...