Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President spoke with full knowledge of the impact of such "drastic measures." He hoped that not all the weapons he requested need be employed, that voluntary measures could turn the trick (particularly under the threat of his club in the closet). But, said the President: "It is apparent that no other methods can safely be counted upon to protect our people from the dangers of excessively high prices and ruinous inflation...
Dalton's successor, Sir Stafford ("The Brain") Cripps, now at the pinnacle of his power, has more rigorous ideas than Dalton on the fiscal policy of a Socialist Government (TIME, Nov. 10). The first Cripps budget, to be presented in April, may contain more drastic provisions...
...fact, the Labor Ministers of all shades of Socialism are being inexorably driven toward more & more drastic policies by the logic of their drastic Socialist premises and the pressure of Britain's crisis. Labor Minister George Isaacs last week issued an order that seemed to breathe authoritarian fire. Under Isaacs' ukase he can direct British men & women without jobs, and those in industries considered unessential, to register and to take jobs in essential industries...
...Equally drastic was the Government's restriction of travel by Canadian citizens in the U.S.-just when northern snows make many Canadians yearn for Florida sun. Henceforth a Canadian may spend no more than $150 a year on trips...
...program is a well integrated, closely knit unit. Taken as a whole it would work for the best interest of that amorphous character, the consumer. It would promote that ubiquitous concept, the public good. If it is pressured into oblivion, even more drastic measures may be required at some date in the not too far distant future...