Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have noticed these ideas predominant among men who intend to return to civil life. The professional Navy, of which I am a member, avoids political opinions. . . .We are pleased, however, that the men with whom we serve for the duration are determined to curb those forces which require us to demonstrate our professional ability on the average of once every ten or 15 years...
...authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking." Now the Jap has turned to a policy of blandishment. On paper he has granted Nanking breathtaking political and economic concessions, such as the nominal surrender of foreign extraterritorial rights, including Japan's. He has tried to curb inflation in the occupied zone. He has altered his propaganda against Chiang Kaishek: no longer is the Generalissimo painted as a fiend destroying China, but as the tool of Anglo-American plotters. Most alarming, he has pushed the organization of Wang's puppet army, now several hundred thousand strong...
...about manpower. She had skipped back to her native land from her $4-million, 50-room Paris snuggery in 1940 after some 30 years abroad. "How soon do you think the war will be over?" she asked Philadelphia reporters last week. Footmen had always carried her Paris guests from curb to door in sedan chairs, she said, and now-"With one more year of war, there wouldn't be an able-bodied man left in France. . . . God knows who's going to carry my guests...
This was the President's 588th veto.* With it he sent the Senate his third major message on inflation. The first message, a year ago, had outlined a seven-point strategy to curb the rising cost of living. The second message, seven months ago, had found progress satisfactory on all points save three: taxes, farm price control, wage stabilization. The cost of living was still rising. Between April 1942 and February...
...course of the war she has sharply increased the skill and efficiency of her labor. Her proved ability to build high-grade aircraft, plus her far-flung bases, should give her a substantial slice of postwar air traffic. Finally, to the degree that she is able to curb inflation, she will emerge with a relatively favorable level of prices and costs...