Word: doled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CHARLES T. DOLE MISS E. G. FAWTHORPE...
...first, Emil will help make but one medium-priced washer, closely resembling the 1942's (G.E. made six prewar models, three of them at or near the loss level to meet low-priced competitors). Most will go straight to G.E.'s 60 domestic distributors, who will dole them out through dealers to the appliance-hungry U.S. (estimates of first-year sales run as high as $2 billion for the industry). The rest will go to globe-girdling International G.E. salesmen who hope to get the jump on competitors for the South American and South African trade...
...account for the long decline and fall of Rome, Durant adopts a "multiple causation" theory. The metals in the Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...
...property sense has largely disappeared in these four years. After taking orders from the Germans, we will take orders from our own government that we would never have accepted before. For example, the order to pay workers a dole when factories had to close. . . . Five years ago we would never have accepted...
...Government whose election prospects have been steadily diminished by the rise of the socialist C.C.F. The socialists took their time about commenting. Tory Leader John Bracken damned the scheme outright ("All the earmarks of a political bribe"). Canada's trade-union leaders suspected a move to substitute a dole for higher wages. In low-wage, Catholic Quebec, where the Government hoped to make its biggest hit, there were complaints that the plan discouraged big families. Throughout Canada, the opposition press raised an almost unanimous hullabaloo. The Calgary Herald achieved the crack-of-the-week, called the plan a "diaper...