Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Prime Minister Attlee, whose quiet good sense has impressed the voters, and big-hearted Ernie Bevin are more popular than Morrison. Morrison, however, has a way of stubbornly getting around the Prime Minister. Bevin and Morrison dislike each other, but that does not prevent them from working together. Morrison's present position is somewhat like that of Jimmy Byrnes when he was "Assistant President" of the U.S.-except that Morrison's position is more active and more important. Says he: "Maybe I wasn't born to rule, but I've got used...
Taking the place of Wendell Furry, professor of Physics, the scheduled speaker for the meeting, Livingstone concluded his remarks on a note of hope, by saying that a through understanding of atomic power may prevent us from entering an atomic arms race and further wars...
August Cardinal Hlond, the stern-faced Roman Catholic primate of Poland, having been accused of doing nothing to prevent or discourage the Kielce massacre of Jews (TIME, July 15), last week washed his hands of the matter. After deploring the pogrom, he said: "The fact that this condition [anti-Jewish violence] is deteriorating, is to a great degree due to Jews who today occupy leading positions in Poland's Government and endeavor to introduce a governmental structure which the majority of the people do not desire. This is a harmful game, as it creates dangerous tensions. In the fatal...
...this was an ironic footnote to Bretton Woods. The Monetary Fund was supposed to prevent currency wars. But its founders were thinking of depression and the export of deflation-i.e., wars to devalue currencies. That kind of a war seemed such a far-off possibility that the nations took their time setting up the Fund. Now it would not be ready to operate for six months. Would a first-class currency war be delayed that long...
...Ceiling prices on exports left too small a margin of profit to suck any large amount of goods away from the domestic market. But with ceilings off, CPA saw trouble ahead. Most world commodity prices are 25% to 100% higher than those in the U.S. There was little to prevent nations with abundant dollar exchange from buying, at fantastic prices, the goods Americans themselves were still short of. So CPA plans to permit an increase in exports only as U.S. production increases. Under CPA's export formula, manufacturers would be permitted to ship scarce articles, chiefly durable consumer goods...