Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kabat clinic a patient is given four doses of the drug daily and an hour of specialized muscular re-education much like that for polio cases. Treatment takes from six months to a year, and costs $200 to $250 a month. Improvement is apparently retained. Possibilities vary with the extent of brain damage, but most of Dr. Kabat's patients have improved-the speechless have begun to talk, the trembling have learned to eat with a steady hand, walk with a sure step...
...Canada and Sweden had decided to export their inflation. Revaluing their currencies made their imports cost less, thus more goods could be brought in. But their exports cost more, so fewer goods would go out. The U.S. last week also decided to export its inflation, to a certain extent, by restricting many exports (see Foreign Trade) while it continued to buy all it could in world markets. But as wealthier nations export inflation, by buying more and selling less in the world market, competitive revaluation, like competitive devaluation 15 years ago, would tend to push the whole world higher into...
...extent of the changes in the top level of the Soviet High Command was not yet fully known. However, it was understood that Stalin has carried out a through-going reorganization and that Zhukov is not the only commander to suffer a sudden change in status...
Most traders claimed that the grain and meat prices, despite their upswing, were still below black market prices under OPA. Actually, the rise was caused, to some extent, by the elimination of subsidies, i.e., the consumer was simply paying the bill in another form...
...cuts the market too much, or 2) gives a competitor an advantage. Many industries, which have been slow getting into production because of strikes and materials shortages, are now producing at, or close to, the break-even point. What they will do depends to a great extent on whether the prices of parts and basic supplies (steel, glass, etc.) go up. The manufacturers can afford to wait and see what happens. None of them can afford to lead the price-rise parade...