Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶Prices were too high, and further inflation still threatened. Extend and strengthen rent controls for two years, said Harry Truman; give the President stand-by authority to impose ceilings on some prices and wages, power to control consumer credit, regulate speculation on commodity exchanges and allocate materials in short...
To assure the disarmament and demilitarization of Germany; to further the recovery of the countries of Europe, including a democratic Germany; and to promote that intimate association of their economic life which . . . alone can assure a peaceful and prosperous Europe.
There were indeed some ablutionary gestures in the council. Britain, France and Belgium opposed any further action against The Netherlands for the present; the U.S. did not want to quarrel with its Western allies. The Dutch meanwhile announced that Prime Minister Willem Drees would personally go to Indonesia to settle...
Toward the end Author Costain tries to liven things up a bit. Félicité is dragged by her ankles, with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man...
Further disruption has occurred from the stoppage in trade from the industrial North to the agricultural South. Nor is there sufficient rice production to maintain the trade with Japan so important before the war. Moreover, the birth rate is so high that it will double the population in 25 years...