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...than three times the free market rate in New York. They could either sell their options in the U.S.-at a huge discount caused by the Dutch regulations; or in Holland, where the proceeds would be frozen. The Dutch blandly said they were only trying to prevent a dollar drain...
...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...
...case becomes far more than one of simple justice or family honor: it involves the sacred Anglo-Saxon principle of individual human rights against even the State itself. On that ground, despite an awful drain on his health and purse, young Winslow's father stubbornly hangs on, and finally wins...
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...