Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With industry already resigned to wage increases of upwards of 10%, the addition of a few percent seemed hardly likely to plunge the country into drastic inflation. The real problem of preventing inflation was the problem of increasing production and any price change not too abrupt was hardly likely to interfere with the process. Avoiding strikes would help the process...
...average German in the Russian zone had at least as much in food, clothing and manufactured goods as Germans elsewhere. He had more coal to heat his house. drastic denazification program in the U.S. zone, the Russians went slower. Key production men could stay on the job, be tried later. <| A Russian general coldly explained that demobilization was not permitted to break up occupation units. The "let's clean this up and go home" spirit so evident in the U.S. zone was frowned...
...eight years Mackenzie King settled many a labor dispute, drafted some labor legislation drastic for that day (e.g., compulsory investigation of industrial disputes). Quickly and surely he earned a reputation for being on the side of the little people against the interests. In a report on a 1907 telephone strike in Toronto, he sympathetically noted the "physical strain" involved in "long sitting in one position" and the "buzzing and snapping of instruments...
Every President since Theodore Roosevelt has felt an urge to perform drastic surgery on the Government's multiplying bureaus. Each has asked Congress for a scalpel, in the form of a reorganization bill, but most of them got something that looked more like a rubber dagger. Congressmen always shuddered at the idea of a President whacking at patronage with anything that would really...
...View. Explained Jimmy Byrnes: George Atcheson had submitted "a broad and thoughtful analysis of the [China] situation as it appeared to him ... an honest effort to assist the Department of State in the formulation of its future policy." John Service had written, in "forceful language" and with some "rather drastic" conclusions, "recommendations for a basic change in U.S. policy" toward Chiang's Government. But this, purred Jimmy Byrnes, was merely one foreign-service man's view, expressed through the proper channels...