Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commitment would not be an ironclad guarantee. The initial sum for ERP would be cut from $6.8 billion to $5.3 billion, but the time to spend it would also be cut from 15 months to twelve. Thus the overall appropriation for ERP would be reduced, but not the monthly rate of spending. The 12-month limitation would also give the newly elected 1949 Congress an early chance to review ERP's progress on the basis of actual experience...
...only catch glimpses of it through the cracks. . . . If every man has to have his share allotted to him from above, we arrive at a kind of prison existence where everyone is at the mercy of the warders. And in our modern prisons the warder is at any rate a recognized official, against whom one can lodge a complaint. But who will be the warders in the general socialist prison? There will be no question of lodging complaints against them; they will be the most merciless tyrants ever seen, and the rest will be the slaves of these tyrants...
Like Dior's new skirts, Paris prices were up (25 to 50%). Molyneux, who had tried to keep his prices down for the benefit of his big, pound-pinched British trade, asked 54,000 francs ($176 at the new free exchange rate) for a simple black afternoon dress, while Dior's simplest day dress was 62,000 francs ($202). But materials were finally getting back to prewar standards. Sighed Molyneux's directress: "So marvelous to know the customers won't come back screaming the day after a heavy rain...
...industry was producing more than ever before. Crude oil production was running at the rate of 5,300,000 barrels a day, an alltime record, well above peak wartime production of 4,700,000 barrels daily...
...Farmers, mechanizing at a record rate, were using 3,000,000 tractors last year...