Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, he said, the common-sense thing to do is to set up, not a fictitious accounting unit such as "bancor" or "unitas," but a dollar-sterling standard, the exchange rate to be fixed by consultation between the two countries, and to be protected by an agreement to prevent competitive currency depreciation. To this standard, the nations of the world could then tie their currencies...
...stand now where I have always stood, without quibble or equivocation, behind a league of nations with power to prevent war. . . . Along with lovers of peace throughout the world, I hail the result of the Moscow Conference, which, if language means anything, plainly proposes a league to maintain peace after the war. . . . The Senate might well see fit to endorse specifically the language of the Moscow Conference...
...disputes on amounts due them after cancellation of contracts. Provision should also be made for Federal loans to war-expanded industries needing capital to carry on in peace, e.g., the aircraft industry. "By and large," the report flatly stated, "taxation and renegotiation and the efforts of procurement agencies to prevent excessive profits have prevented corporations from greatly increasing their working capital at the expense of the Government...
...order to prevent the large monthly loss of allotments to service men's dependents, the U. S. Secret Service has civilized several precautionary measures to be observed by persons receiving these checks...
...also most important that the heavy card type be kept flat and free from holes, tears, and creases in order to prevent errors in the mechanical accounting of cancelled checks...