Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Each country must control capital exports in accordance with the purposes of the Fund, prevent the International Fund being used for the transfer of "hot money," and make no blocked money agreements, etc. with other nations...
When terminating war contracts, he added, the government might find it profitable in the long run to purchase unneeded war material or cancel contracts only in part so as to prevent an immediate slump in the national economy...
Keith, 95 lb., fights most of his exhibitions with his father, Morris Nuttall, who used to be an intermountain lightweight champion. Morris Nuttall started training the boy in earnest when he was eleven, keeps him on a diet, sees to it that his muscles develop gradually enough to prevent any tightening up-the "boxer's bugaboo." In exhibitions with other boys-most of them his seniors by two or three years-Keith has beaten fighters more than half again his weight...
...Prevent a Stalemate? How to reanimate an executive department that refuses to "recognize and enter into diplomatic relations with the American people" is the burden of Mr. Jones's final chapter. Mr. Jones would create a foreign-relations council consisting of the Secretary of State, the Under Secretary of State, and delegates from the Senate and House committees on foreign relations. State Department information would be made available to the council. The constant consultation between legislative and executive branches of the Government on the elements and practice of foreign policy might do much to prevent any tragic stalemate...
...Becker quietly and unobtrusively suggests that an international economic order presupposes an abatement of the social conflict inside nations. No doubt Mr. Jones would go along with Carl Becker on this. But neither author can tell how the trick is to be turned. Neither can they tell how to prevent civil war from becoming world...