Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other was rambunctious Harold Stassen, the only avowed Republican candidate in the ring. In a radio speech before Manhattan's National Republican Club he said: "A high tariff policy no longer suits America. . . . We believe in the increased flow of goods and materials and services and travel around the globe.... The alternative is either to go forward now with the reciprocal trade agreements, or to slide backward in economic isolation...
...more fundamentally, Europe is losing its last chance at middle-of-the-road economic remedies if English mines continue to send spasms of paralysis through British industry. Democratic moderates in France and the Low Countries has looked to a flow of consumers goods from these factories to clothe and comfort their shabbily-dressed millions while at the same time the export of processed foods to England was to be balanced by this trade. To Germans the British dimout meant that the industrial rehabilitation of their country must await stimulus from the east, since Newcastle can scarcely afford coals...
...must be explained in terms of someone's unwillingness to spend the money somewhere. The departments, almost to the last, will disclaim any direct responsibility for the cutbacks and will point to budgets that will not allow for expansion in this line. The Administration, from whom all budgets flow--albeit with departmental advice--will counter with claims that once the budget is granted, each department has a free hand to go on ahead autonomously with plans for tutorial. The departments may have a free hand, but have they the money...
Weisgal was probably unaware, however, of the growing dramatic frustration arising in the dark corners of Sanders Theatre, where female candidates for the title role cowered. As the dulcet tones began to flow from Weisgal's lips, three 'Cliffedwellers strode out of the casting hall in disgust, but the remainder decided to see their disappointment through...
This ebb & flow of news also includes stories rejected before being written. The part of TIME which never appears in print is itself a distillation of scores of stories offered, examined, weighed, and found wanting-for any one of a number of reasons. Obviously, since TIME is designed to give its readers the significant news of the week in the fewest possible reading hours, there is a limit to the amount of words readers can be expected to read.* Believed to be dead...