Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good scare last week. He thought there would certainly be a serious egg shortage, come December. Next day, OWI struggled to issue a soothing explanation: 1) civilians will get only a third as many storage eggs (one million cases) as they got last year, but the loss will be offset by a 13% rise in egg production; 2) more people are eating eggs these days and boosting the demand; 3) "this is just the sort of situation that gives rise to black markets...
Although Ramirez said, upon assuming control, that he would give the government back to the politicians when it was cleaned up, that day seemed more remote than it had a month ago. To offset discontent over restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly and press, the Government rolled back rents, set certain price ceilings and exposed some graft in the deposed Castillo regime...
Germany, at this time, could scarcely make offers which would offset the Allied trumps, a fact best illustrated by the gradual swing of Turkish trade and Turkish policy toward the Allied side...
...this constant hide-&-seek the Russians with their larger numbers have an advantage which the Germans can offset only with superior air and armored forces. Lacking this superiority, the Germans recently indicated that they would attempt only a limited offensive, perhaps intended mainly to reduce the Red Army's tank strength, and thus improve the Axis' chances in a prolonged campaign...
...Machinists' Union announced its withdrawal from A.F. of L. Thus the prospective A.F. of L. gain of Lewis' 600,000 mine workers was offset by the loss of 565,000 machinists. The machinists' grievance, 29 years old, was jurisdictional...