Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations are faced .with inflation. There is plenty of money, but little to buy. Consciously or not, 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...
...knockout wallop to Canada's gold-mining industry, just getting back on its feet from the war slowdown. And it might hit the tourist trade, which annually pours some $150,000,000 into Canada. U.S. tourists will no longer get $1.10 for their U.S. dollars. But if fewer tourists come because of the lost premium, Canada will lose some badly needed dollar exchange...
Your review of A World to Win [TIME, June 3] has been read and censures duly noted. I think your readers might be interested to know that the first printing of this book was 80,000 copies and that the Dollar Book Club has agreed to take not fewer than half, a million copies next autumn...
...Committee on Mothers' Milk, last week credited his wet nurses with a large part of the city's drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only a dreadful nuisance but is somehow...
...Farrell's new novel, he said: "I discovered at least two chapters which I consider indecent. There was nothing else I could do about it but slap on the ban. . . . We're not on a witch hunt. The fewer such decisions we have to make the better we like...