Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peru, where nothing can be imported without a license, restrictions are just as drastic. Every request for a permit must be published in the official El Peruano (including the intention to spend $8.50 from a U.S. bank account for a subscription to TIME). Even so, Peruvians' funds are so tight that half the applications to import machinery, locomotives, lathes, trucks, etc. are turned down. Since last March, the Government itself has spent 14% of Peru's foreign exchange, mainly for food bought in Chile and Argentina and sold to the public at a loss...
Current financial success has enough the price down from the original 43 cents to a quarter. Far from the only drastic move of the new staff, the have also given readers a chance to speak their mind in a new letter column...
...Truman called a special session of Congress to pass drastic anti-labor legislation...
Taken all together, the Ball measures represented such a drastic rewriting of the ground rules passed by the New Deal (and by labor considered sacred) that the astute Bob Taft backed away. Harold Stassen, who came before the committee with a bland legislative pudding of his own, was solemnly aghast at the pungent recipe concocted by his old friend Ball. No more than half of Ball's measures would ever be accepted by the Senate committee. The industry-wide bargaining and closed-shop prohibitions would almost certainly be dumped. The bitter pill would be sugarcoated...
Washington heard that Jackson, sitting that night in the U.S. Embassy in Nanking, wrote a cable outlining Soong's drastic proposals. When Jackson got to the end of the second page he could not find another sheet of paper. Impatient, he flipped the sheet over, wrote the last part of his message on the back. An Embassy clerk cabled only one side of the paper, which made it appear that Jackson had actually recommended Soong's plan. The resulting uproar in the U.S. press was a typical sample of how Chinese-U.S. relations have been worsened...