Word: drain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better. There would not be much of the junk that cluttered up counters during the war. Some of the newer gadgets are precision jobs. Samples: a dump truck with a hydraulic lift; a scale model of a concrete mixer that pours real cement out of a hand-operated drain...
Wheat: meeting export goals will depend on favorable weather, a conservation program. High production is no undue drain on fertility, but plowing up grazing lands for more acreage seriously increases the dangers of soil erosion...
...underlying causes of our inflation can be attributed to: swollen purchasing power flowing from full employment and higher incomes; the continual lag of purchasable goods and food behind demand; the aggravating intangible of national selfishness; the absence of anti-inflationary taxation or monetary policies; and finally, the sapping drain on the economy caused by export of goods without imports in exchange. The interplay of these factors causes the present state of prices...
...these restrictions were intended to reduce the drain on Britain's dwindling dollar supply; 'but they would close only a third of the gap between what Britain sold abroad and what she bought abroad. The other side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production...
British producers pointed out that because of Hollywood's six-month supply of films in Britain, the tax would not accomplish its purpose of immediately easing the drain on Britain's dollars. By the time it got around to doing so, they feared that the British film industry might be the real loser. Most cinemoguls on both sides of the Atlantic felt that the tax was mainly a bargaining point which Britain had readied for this week's conference on relaxing the terms of its loan from...