Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henderson's ability to lick inflation by this piecemeal method has nothing to do with his partial power over prices. For Henderson is also the administrator of civilian supply, with complete power over rationing. Without a Gestapo no price ceiling is effective on scarce materials whose supply is uncontrolled; and when the supply is controlled-i.e., rationed-the price ceiling enforces itself. Thereafter, as both Britain and Canada know, control of inflation is a Treasury matter: more taxes, more savings...
...method by which he repealed them was exquisitely simple. Claude Wickard, red-faced and squirming but holding his ground, explained it before the enraged Senate Agriculture Committee: no law, he said, stopped him from unloading Government stocks, at Government prices, privately, for the war needs of other Government departments. He could have his surplus wheat made into bread to feed the Army & Navy, his cotton into sheets and shirts to sleep and clothe them, his corn into alcohol for their shells. When the Senators were still skeptical (the price bill prohibits "sale or disposition" of Government-held stocks except...
...camps for religious pacifists. Finally, Mike Levin's article on the high-pressure tactics of orchestra booking-agents should be of distinct value to anyone responsible for college dances, while his suggestion of a centralized board to handle orchestra booking for the colleges should, if feasible, provide an excellent method for future economics in finance and effort...
...spearhead of our first line of defense. Each division is a self-sufficient unit, containing field artillery, infantry, and aviation. Its functions range from guarding navy yards to dispatching expeditionary forces in support of the fleet. Students who sign up with the Marines just because it is a convenient method of prolonging their existence around the vicinity of Harvard Square will get an unpleasant awakening when they find themselves having to live up to the corp's expectations of an "active leader of men . . . forceful, aggressive, determined, courageous, and endowed with tireless endurance." Washington may let students finish college...
...first method is hampered by low yields (usually well under 10%). The second has yielded up to 22% and can theoretically yield much more, is the great white toluene hope. Hydro-forming plants now represent about 60% of total toluene capacity and are counted on for whatever expansion may be necessary. The process was developed over the past few years by a number of U.S. oil companies in the course of experiments on high-octane gasoline...