Word: shrinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European forces, now 2,780,000 strong, will shrink to 400,000. How many men will be required to police the Japanese islands, nobody knew; some guessed...
...deserved also, thank God, to have De Gaulle. The spirit of abandonment and the spirit of resistance-both are incarnated in Frenchmen, and these two spirits met in a duel of death. . . . Since the most modest among us shared the glory of the first resister, let us not shrink from the thought that a part of ourselves was an accomplice of that crushed...
...enough. With cutbacks in war production at hand, overtime is already becoming a thing of the past in many plants. For workers who have to leave war production to go back to civilian production, with its generally lower pay rates, the size of the pay envelope is likely to shrink even more. Only higher pay rates can keep Labor's weekly take-home pay from shrinking drastically...
...committee had no choice. The U.S. gold hoard, which amounted to a historic $22,737,000,000 at the time of Pearl Harbor, is now down to $20,452,000,000. This might shrink even further if foreign balances in the U.S. of $5.3 billions are converted into gold. Reason for today's lowered total: the U.S. has been paying cash for more than half of its war imports and purchases in foreign lands (most of its vast exports are lend-lease, bring home no U.S. dollars). Thus the gold which poured into...
...them believe he has slighted their service. In a special sense, the Pacific War is and has been the Navy's war, and the Navy knows that its prestige in that war is its great claim to public and Congressional support after the peace. The Navy would shrink from any public controversy with prestige-laden Douglas MacArthur. Its policy is rather to sit tight and trust that time and events, principally on Luzon, will solve the problem...