Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against Inflation. On the economic front, Congress would be asked to take steps to control inflation. In his message to the "Turnip Day" session last July, the President had asked for stand-by powers to control prices, ration scarce commodities and allocate materials in short supply. There was every indication that once again he would demand that power, to be used when necessary...
...coach watched the big, clumsy kid flounder until he couldn't stand it any longer. He yanked him out of a freshman game a few weeks ago. "Your name's Conway, isn't it?" he asked. The kid's lip trembled. "Yes, sir," he replied. Said the coach: "Well, you're not playing like...
...doesn't insist we all must be world beaters. The only thing he lays on the line without any ifs is we've got to play hard. And he lets us know that if our marks fall we're out of football. None of us could stand that...
...Bark. There was no doubt that the stock market, which had been as certain as everyone else of a G.O.P. victory, was panicked by all the Democratic talk of stand-by price controls, an excess-profits tax, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and demands for wage boosts from tough, confident unions backed by a labor-minded Administration (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway...
...farther businessmen were from Wall Street, the less they were upset by the election. The Wall Street Journal surveyed the U.S. and found that no one was canceling expansion plans or retrenching. And many businessmen were less worried about price controls-even stand-by ones -than the fact that buyers were shying away from many items at present prices-and prices would have to come down anyway...