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Word: provisionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week organized labor in the U. S. suddenly massed in a concerted attack on a major Administration enactment. Conservative A. F. of L., liberal C. I. O., radical Workers Alliance all rose up in arms against the 13O-hour provision of the new Relief act. They explained it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cannon-Cracker | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

The unfinished money bill's provision against further buying of foreign silver last week caused near-panic in Mexico. In the U. S. all foreign bar silver available was rushed to the mints. The world price dropped to 38? per oz. (from 43? at the first of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Money at Midnight | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

National Defense was also relatively uncontroversial. The House last week had up the last of the big rearmament appropriations, $292,695,547 for personnel, new airbases, etc., and to buy 2,290 more planes for the Army Air Corps. The Republicans managed momentarily to strike some $37,000,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lumber Pile | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

> Instead of one man, the House called for a WPA administration board of three, bipartisan, to ensure against WPA's being wielded as a political sledgehammer. This simple provision was an indictment aimed at Harry Hopkins.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: For 1940 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

2) A provision to carry over net business losses and deduct them from business profits of future years. "A business with alternating profit and loss now pays higher taxes over a period of years than does a business with stable profits although the average income of the two firms may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Henny-Penny's Inning | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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