Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Republicans had suggested was that taxes be cut. Republicans were convinced that this would reduce prices in the long run. But it would do little, immediately, to dampen down the combustible factors which threatened to send prices soaring again...
Like everyone else, Harry Truman had his worries; as President he had more than the normal share. But nothing seemed to dampen his resilient spirits. Last week he was having the time of his life passing out two boxes of shiny new pens, the gift of an anonymous admirer. On each was stamped the same inscription he uses on his match folders: "I swiped this from Harry S. Truman...
...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...
...country's economy is at a stage where patience on the part of the consumer and a refusal to submit to price rises, by doing without certain kinds or grades of products, will soon dampen any inflationary tendencies. Many producers are holding back on their stocks. If they can be convinced that prices will not go higher, the resulting sales will relieve the most critical shortages...
Most businessmen, well aware of the danger of exploding inflation and finding first-quarter earnings good, were as anxious as anyone to dampen down. Philip Reed, chairman of General Electric, declared: "Prices . . . should be kept scrupulously down even at the expense of normal profit margins." Manhattan's department store, R. H. Macy, bought space in newspapers to publicize President Jack Straus's plea for retention of OPA "as a necessary check against runaway prices...