Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among Republican members of the Banking & Currency Committee) a confidential study which blistered Leon's britches: "Table-thumping and bellowing tactics. . . . Cannot resist the use of invective . . . capricious actions . . . anti-business views." Gist of the study: a price bill is necessary but it should: 1) clearly define and limit its powers; 2) counteract "the tacit encouragement of the Administration in wage increases"; 3) give power not to Henderson but to someone who "merits the confidence of business...
Eighteen months more was just a time limit so that the Army would not be unduly rushed in discharging men 1) before they had finished jobs in hand, 2) before they could be adequately replaced, or 3) in such numbers that units would be broken up. Actually the War Department intended to turn them out as fast as it could after their first twelve months. It hoped to have almost 200,000 men back home by Christmas, barring war or more imminent threat...
...knew Mr. Eccles was surprised at his warning. Himself the No. 1 spend-in-depression, save-in-boom exponent, he has lately also been an ardent supporter of Leon Henderson's efforts to stop inflation by saving the consumer from himself. To Henderson, the 18-month limit on time sales of consumers' durable goods looks generous. Henderson had already persuaded Eccles to include furniture in his list of controlled goods. Now he pushed him into threatening still sharper restrictions...
...last week Marriner Eccles published the terms on which Americans can henceforth buy 17 consumers' products, from automobiles to toilet fixtures. On all installment contracts covered by the list he fixed a time limit of 18 months. Down payments required...
...matched in air power and underwater strength. Yet time urged them on. By October monsoon winds would blow into action, lashing the east coast of Malaya and the Indies with turbulent waters. Landing under such difficulties would double the risk. The monsoon for the admirals was a time limit almost as compelling as the Siberian winter for the generals. In another six months, by April., when the monsoons are over, the Netherlands Indies might be almost impregnable...