Word: drain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was some plainer speaking. Earlier in the week, Cripps had told the House of Commons that Britain would cut her imports from the dollar area by 25% to help stop the drain on her dollar supply. Now, Cripps wanted the Commonwealth to cut its own dollar area imports...
...days before the King's emergency proclamation, a grim House of Commons listened glumly while Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps read from eight pages of foolscap. Almost every one of the 20 minutes' worth was bad news. Britain's dollars were going down the drain too fast; $261,950,000 had been used up from the end of March to the end of June. Only $1,636,180,000 was left-well below the $2 billion reserve the British had considered the minimum for safety...
...battle against the elements is progressing. Airers have found a glycerine compound which is sprayed on windshields to drain off the downpour in transparent sheets instead of driblets. Steel reinforcement keeps 60-by-50-feet screens from toppling in high winds. For mosquitoes, there are DDT foggings. Against fog, filters have been devised to help projectors lay the picture on the screen clearly and sharply...
...JOHN M. DRAIN Cleveland, Ohio...
...probably the main conservation problem. As long as nobody bothers them, Congressmen will go right on supporting the sheep-owners' demands to chew the life from the grazing lands. As long as nobody bothers them Congress will go merrily on, allowing the nation's resources to float down the drain...