Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Keynes claims that during World War I the main reason that prices leaped ahead of wages in Britain was that wage earners, flush with fat wartime pay envelopes, spent so lavishly amid a shortage of goods that they forced up prices to their own disadvantage. If they had "deferred spending," says the Professor, the "spiral of inflation" and of post-war deflation would not have been so violent...
...bleakly at a picture they dislike. Without a message were Hallowe'en, Artist Gropper's small son Lee, in a gaudy pirate's costume, grinning out from under a cocked hat of newspapers, and The Kibitzer, an absorbed youth eying a poker player's royal flush...
...Japan," said Sir Victor, who plays cards for high stakes, "finds herself in the position of trying to bluff in a poker game with a full house against a royal flush. . . . The U. S. has Japan absolutely cold in these negotiations, and Japanese businessmen know...