Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failure of the Treasury to prepare far enough ahead was important in multiplying the difficulties of maximum conversion to war; it also will, of course, lead to more inflation-than the Administration has thus far conceded. Nor is it difficult to predict who will get the rap for inflation as it develops. It will be hapless Henry Morgenthau Jr., sitting at the central Treasury controls. Yet all the ills of too much money cannot be attributed to Henry Morgenthau. No nation, has ever fought a major war without substantial inflation; and few nations have ever entered a war with...
...Rubber Administrator William Jeffers picked up his ruler to rap the nation's knuckles: "There is a good deal of organized opposition in various quarters-the funds for which are being furnished by people who should know better-protesting the application of gas rationing. I don't question their motive. They just don't understand. The period from now until we can start to allocate substantial quantities of synthetic rubber for civilian use, which will be many months, must be bridged by saving rubber through gasoline rationing. The alternative is a possible collapse of transportation which would...
Penning two wrathful letters, Huaraca XXVI signed them with the imperial three feathers and crown and sent them off to rap the knuckles of the guilty parties: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ecuador's President Carlos Arroyo del Rio. Then the imperial temper cooled. Huaraca XXVI was ready to lease his land to the U.S. for the war's duration for an "adequate rental...
...Brent) in her wake, bounds right back after her catch has killed himself. When it becomes apparent that nothing much is ever going to come of all this sound and fury over a tyrannical child, Our Life curls up its toes and subsides. Miss Davis, fleeing from a manslaughter rap for running over a child, wrecks her car and dies...
...loss of about 575 pages in a year, or between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 in revenue. (All Curtis publications made only $1,628,386 in the first nine months of 1941.) When a magazine starts taking that kind of loss, somebody has to take the rap: the business management or the editorial staff...