Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud squawk from the Department of Commerce's Office of International Trade Operations. OIT, which would have to administer the CPA plan through export-license control, hated the thought of curbing foreign trade at a time when the U.S, was asking the rest of the world to relax trade restrictions. (Commercial exports in May were $649 million, highest since January 1921.) But there had been no boom since OPA's death. If a boom started, OIT could clamp on controls in 24 hours. In effect, CPA was turning on the hose before the fire started...
...traders, who feared that Britain would gobble up some of their markets, could relax. Despite the increase, Britain still had an unfavorable balance of trade in May of ?27,062,000, and ?136,887,000 for the first five months this year. And the "export or die" program had already started to hold itself down by its bootstraps...
Probable explanation of the cure: the shock permanently increases the output and even the size of the adrenal glands, pouring greater amounts of adrenaline into the patient's blood to relax his constricted bronchial muscles...
Make It Snappy! When the ministers and their staffs filed through gilded double doors into the Salle Victor Hugo, everyone tried hard to relax, joking with old friends, shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko...
Into the oval, colonial-style conference room in Ottawa's Parliament Building strode nine determined members of the Canadian Congress of Labor's potent Wage Committee. Before bustling, bumbling Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, they laid a demand that the Government relax its vise-tight wage control. The C.C.L.'s potent argument: the wave of strikes which threatens Canada...