Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harper was talking about the amount of power that Washington, whether or not sanctioned by law, can bring to bear on industry. Harper is an authority on the subject: last November, when the aluminum industry proposed a price hike, Administration aides summoned him to Washington and, by threatening to dump Government-held surplus aluminum onto the market, pressured him into rescinding the increase, in keeping with the Government's "voluntary" price-wage guidelines...
...when Southern Congressmen complained about Yarmolinsky's presence in the program, the bill's sponsors agreed to "dump" him in exchange for approval of the authorizing legislation. A series of newspaper articles dramatized the event...
...economics but is pursuing policies of Pressure and persuasion that go far beyond anything Keynes ever dreamed of. In 1965 Johnson vigorously wielded the wage-price guide-lines" to hold wages and prices down, forced producers of aluminum, copper and wheat to retreat from price hikes by threatening to dump the Government's commodity stockpiles and battled the nation s persistent balance-of-payments deficit ,with the so-called "voluntary" controls on spending and lending abroad. Some Keynesians believe that these policies violate Keynes's theories because they are basically microeconomic instead of macroeconomic ?because they restrict prices, wages...
...quoted British Philosopher Walter Bagehot: "When a historian withholds important facts likely to influence the judgment of his readers, he commits a fraud." (But Schlesinger himself ignored that injunction when, according to a friend, he decided to omit a similar account of how Kennedy had been planning to dump FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover...
...main obstacle to even faster work is the same delays in shipping and unloading that have caused a logistics bottleneck for the armed forces. Because there are just not enough ports and docks, long-awaited bulldozers, dump trucks or stone crushers are often delayed. To ease the bottleneck, the combine has set up an advance staging area at Poro Point on Luzon in the Philippines, is building three additional depots in Viet Nam. Except for such basics as rock, sand and gravel, most of the construction material must be shipped from the U.S. Though native lumber is abundantly available...