Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, the Administration found the steelmakers blameworthy chiefly for the timing of the rise. Said CEA: "Inflationary influences are still strong. If this inflationary trend is to be halted without broad use of public powers, all those who occupy strategic positions in the setting of prices . . . must recognize the public interest in their private economic decisions in a way the steel industry has not shown in this instance...
...founded by Alexander Hamilton. It was the first bank in the then small (pop. 23,000) city of New York. Its immediate success brought two more banks-and worries-for Banker Hamilton. "'Tis impossible," he wrote in 1791, "but that three great banks in one city must raise such a mass of artificial credit as must endanger every one of them, and do harm in every view...
...million U.S. take at the British box office (1946 figure), the tax would have left Hollywood a maximum of $17 million; the new agreement places a $17 million limit on the amount of profits which can be taken out in dollars. All profits above that must be kept in Britain in nonconvertible sterling. Hollywood can invest this money in British-made pictures* or in whatever enterprises a special U.S.-British board will approve...
...develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham always choose to grin, because what saves them-and makes them more fabulous than life-size-is that they never condescend to be mean and sniveling mortals...
...plant's trim and final assembly department, one morning, a notice appeared on the bulletin board: "All Communists must be out of this department by 11:30 a.m. The Committee." At 11:30, the suspected workmen were still there. They were booted out. Next day, they were booted out again. When they came back again, the department struck. The company closed the entire plant...