Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...level off on a plateau of $380 million to one U.S. dollar. Desperate Chinese hoped that it might hold steady until military victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain...
...sometimes thunderstorms cannot be dodged. So the Air Force, cooperating with the Navy, the Weather Bureau and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, undertook to find the best way to deal with them. If a plane flies too slowly through the vertical gusts, it may lose flying speed and stall. If it flies too fast, the gusts may tear its wings off. This week the Air Force published a chart showing how fast various planes should fly through thunderstorms-if they must...
Liability. In Manila, owners of the vast, inflammable Yangco Market gave one reason why they had not had a fire in 47 years: they forbade the stall proprietors to take out fire insurance...
...affairs did not preclude income tax reductions. Hoping to make new witholding rates effective on May 1-even if a presidential veto had to be overridden to do it -the Senate plunged into debate on its bill to slash taxes by $4.8 billion. A handful of Democrats tried to stall the Republican timetable. Wyoming's Joe O'Mahoney proposed an amendment to restore taxes on excess profits. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, both irked because the House Agriculture Committee had killed 18 bills to repeal punitive taxes on oleomargarine, tried...
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