Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Chinese dollar paused momentarily in its flight, to level off on a plateau of $380 million to one U.S. dollar. Desperate Chinese hoped that it might hold steady until military victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher...
...such cases of "word blindness." Her only requirements: that pupils be of normal intelligence and that their parents leave them at the clinic until the cure is complete. In two months to two years, she has usually been able to bring their reading ability up to their mental age level...
...charged that the discounts were unfair to smaller buyers. The Supreme Court in effect had ordered Morton Salt to stick to a uniform price list for big & small alike. Reasoned one businessman: "If everyone does stick to his price list and the price lists gravitate to a common level, as they will be compelled to do under the economic law of uniform price, then, according to the Supreme Court, the sellers can be found guilty of collusion." If he breaks from his price list, he is guilty of an unfair trade practice. Groaned another: "Let Congress step in and spell...
...Berlin. In a deeper sense, the Russians have already lost it. A great power that is reduced to the savage expedient of trying to starve a city into submission has confessed its abject defeat in trying to win the people's allegiance. The battle has fallen from the level of the brain to the level of the belly; above the belly, the Russians no longer pretend to offer anything...
...make ice skating seem the most lethargic of all sports. This year, however, they display a certain mild improvement. The big patriotic number really cracks the whip as well as waves the flag; and one or two of the more lavish spectacles show a definite advance from the artistic level of the candy box to that of the Christmas card...