Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Study of the Office of Price Administration's record revealed that Price Boss Henderson had done a remarkable if somewhat extralegal job. He had roofed over 70 prices with formal ceilings, had set up 70 more tentative ceilings by voluntary agreements with the industries concerned. The results were good compared with those of World War I. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics indexes...
Until the Nazis made him a commander of the first submarine flotilla in 1936 (he shunned formal affiliation with the Weimar regime, worked and was financed under cover), he had no official status. But years before the Nazis came to power he began preparing to rebuild Germany's U-boat Navy. There was not a single major step in the process that he did not dominate...
...necessary to complete his induction record, at this time he should be prepared to give the complete name and address of his nearest blood relative and also that of another blood relative whom the new trainee desires to designate as an alternate beneficiary in case of accident; (3) a formal ceremony in which he will be inducted as a soldier in the Army of the United States; (4) he is then issued toilet articles and assigned to his company...
...formal end in view was a hemisphere-wide rupture, diplomatic and commercial, with the Axis countries. But the triumph might be far greater than that: at Rio de Janeiro the Americas had a good chance of being forged into an America...
...Columbia estate for a rumored $150,000, began moving her things from "Friendship," which she has sold to the U.S. for a housing project. Said she: "I shall . . . keep on ... with the same old parties and the same old friends." She bought her new diggings, complete with elaborate formal gardens, outsize ballroom, marble-floored billiard room, and swimming pool from Alexander Kirk, U.S. Minister to Egypt...