Word: intended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined to improve China's poorly fed, poorly trained, poorly led army. Foreign Minister and acting head of the Executive Yuan, T. V. Soong appeared a good choice to stop China's spiraling inflation, civilian profiteering. But, asked Mansfield, "has Chiang gone far enough, or does he intend to, and is there still time? China used to be able to trade space for time but now she has very little space and not much time...
...substance the Soviet Vozhd* says this: 'We Russians intend to go on doing exactly as we please within the zone of the Red Armies whether you like it or not. The Soviet Union is going to rely primarily on good solid political and military measures and only secondarily on a possible United Nations Security organization. You cannot oppose us without endangering the common war effort...
...National Production and Employment Budget. This would contain a careful estimate of public and private spending in prospect for the coming year and make proposals for bringing the total of both, if deficient, up to the amount necessary to provide full employment. In short, the Murray proposal does not intend to take up economic slack, once formed; it intends that there shall be no slack...
...Gordon, clearly wrong about the source of Brazil's silk, did not intend to yield an inch on prices. Freight, duty and exchange taxes would make the price of Brazilian stockings, which sell in Rio for the equivalent of $2.50 a pair, from $4 to $5.50 a pair in Canada. All that the price controller was prepared to allow Ottawa retailers was $1.25 to $1.95 a pair, the price of stockings of similar quality...
...manufacture, quarterly, of 10,000 light civilian trucks, which have not been made since February 1942. WPB further raised the hopes of civilians for more durable goods by placing mechanical refrigerators, which have been out of production since April 1942, on the spot authorization list. But it does not intend to release materials for them until early next year, at least. And most of them will go to the armed forces...