Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above all the year when men were trying to readjust themselves in books to two years of political shocks, from Munich to Dunkirk, which challenged every value by which men had thinkingly or unthinkingly lived...
...excise taxes if only to have them on hand as bargaining points in wrangling with the House over broadening the income base. By merging last year's special defense tax with the surtax rate, the committee proposed to increase the lowest surtax rate from 5% to 6%, readjust upward the rate for higher brackets. What will happen to the committee's bill when it reaches the Senate floor, no one could foretell...
...appears that, as has long been suspected in well-informed circles, all the long men have short beds and all the short men have long beds. The Bedroom New Deal plans to readjust this inequality in favor of the Forgotten Six-footer...
...Stalin and Molotov doubtless counted on a longer war, possibly on the socialization of Europe in the process. When France collapsed, it was time to readjust the balance of power, if possible; at least to readjust Russia's defenses. So Russia marched...
...band (44,000-50,000 kilocycles), FCC opened the heavens to FM broadcasting. Including the band it .had previously been allocated experimentally, it now has 42,000-50,000 kilocycles, will presently be able to spot stations all over the land. Meanwhile, television must plainly label television experimental, must readjust its transmitters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to one of its other bands. Bubbling with confusion, excitement, hysteria, the radio industry, feeling the hot breath of revolution on its neck, last week gazed fitfully into the future. Some of its visions were sad, some glad. Among them...