Word: directed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavy taxation, small investment, and direct price control on some commodities epitomized Professor Harris' solution of inflation, while Professor Schumpeter advocated light taxation and large investment...
Lieutenant Cunningham of the City Police, reached at headquarters last night, saw no signs of a wave of thefts in the two incidents, and predicted that the cars will be found on some direct in Cambridge in a day or so." He added that he thought the thefts were the work of amateur "joyriders...
...T.U.C. General Council, however, has no direct control over its constituent unions or their nearly 8,000,000 members. It can only "recommend." A real test of Cripps's disagreeable program will come next month, when leaders of individual unions meet. Already some unions had balked. Last week the huge Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions (3,000,000 members) was still insisting on a general wage increase. Said Communist Arthur Horner, general secretary of the Mineworkers' Union: "The first blow in the economic crisis must be struck at profits and luxury living, not at wages...
Canals & Superscientists? That was about as far as Dr. Kuiper went. He did not speculate about a race of lichen eaters. He took no direct photographs, and did not see the famous Martian "canals" that astronomers (and Sunday supplement readers) argue about. The canals may get their test in a couple of years when Mars swings around again, and the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain is ready to take its picture...
Abolishing fixed partitions, central stockrooms (each department has its own), and installing direct package delivery to customers' autos, they built a country-club-like store that started a new trend in stores. Expected to gross $7,500,000 a year, the store, which opened last fall, is now operating at an annual rate of $16 million. Bullock's was so pleased that it hired Walt & Welt to design two more branches at Palm Springs and Westwood...