Word: drain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the pessimists did not expect the shortage to get anywhere near as bad as it was in wartime. But they did expect it to bring higher oil prices. And next autumn, when the heavy drain begins on fuel oil storage, some local tanks...
...week a faltering step was taken to ease the shortage. The International Monetary Fund, which was set up to help members meet "temporary disequilibriums" in their international payments, had its first customers. The severe European winter had forced France to import large amounts of U.S. wheat, with a consequent drain on its supply of dollars. France got $25 million by paying francs to the fund. The Netherlands, also short of foreign exchange, put up guilders for $6 million...
...quickly and how much can he gain on Hollywood? In Britain, if his production reaches 100 pictures a year -the maximum with present studios-he may cut Hollywood to 70% of the total box-office take in the United Kingdom, thus cut the dollar drain on Britain by about $20,000,000. On the same production basis, he might send enough top pictures to the U.S. to step his profits up to $18,000,000. This would be a blow to Hollywood. But Rankmen bumptiously predict that within five years they will be digging up $50,000,000 in Hollywood...
...Actually, the U.S. could stand the drain on its food resources without even tightening its belt. Production was high. The Agriculture Department predicted a bumper 1947 wheat crop of 1,240,000,000 bu., compared to 1,185,000,000 last year. Despite 14 million more mouths than before the war, per capita food consumption in the U.S. had increased 16%. In 1946 the U.S. supplied the world with a net of $6.6 billion of goods and services, but this was only 3.4% of the total value of goods & services produced by a comparatively fat and wealthy land. Far from...
...addition, House football, which to a large extent has solved the lighter man's grid problem, stands in the way of a revival. Rivalries have become so deeply entrenched, Bingham pointed out, that Housemasters might object strongly to the reorganization of a sport that would drain off their best talent...