Word: existences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox is that these low-priced textiles do not exist mainly because OPA has succeeded in keeping prices down. But OPA's victory has also been the consumers' loss, because manufacturers of "low-end" goods, between soaring labor and raw materials costs on one side and inflexible ceilings on their prices on the other, found themselves squeezed out of profits. Result: they largely quit civilian production-and "upgraded" the rest. Half of production went into military orders. The other half became "higher-quality" merchandise-sometimes a matter of adding as little as an extra color to a fabric...
Receiving Difficulties Still Exist...
...Whether Rumania and Finland will exist at all after the war is open to question. Rumania may be chewed up by Hungary and Bulgaria; Finland may have a choice of total submission to Russia now or total inclusion within the Soviet Union later...
Inefficiency Expert. The almost patho logically detached Leonardo also served the most bloodthirsty power politician of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI. Leonardo was Borgia's military engineer, with no inter est whatever in politics. There exist some remarkable maplike bird's-eye views of the Italian terrain which Leonardo drew for Borgia's ill-fated campaigns...
...themselves of their many current handicaps? 2) What is the cause of the Briton's patronizing attitude toward women? 3) Should the housewife have an economic status? Shaw's answers: 1) "They are not handicapped. . . . It is men who are handicapped now." 2) "It doesn't exist. Men are abjectly afraid of women, not without reason." 3) "She has it. The country is run by women...