Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curb or Cure. The Administration's specialists, testifying before congressional committees last week, argued that the way to stop inflation was first to control exports and allocate scarce materials to the most essential users. As insurance against a future turn for the worse, they also recommended price, wage and rationing controls and restored curbs on installment buying...
Cutting demand would certainly be one way to stop inflation. The other way was to increase production. Said Eccles: "Production is the ultimate solution for inflation." But with the U.S. already riding a full employment economy, that could only mean the harder work and longer hours Eccles suggested. The U.S. was still feeling only a little sick; it was not yet feeling bad enough to work the fever...
Nobody but Americans. From Calcutta to Rangoon they had to stop at every good-sized rice paddy-George had picked up "Delhi belly." In Hanoi, a Frenchman told them not to bother about showing their passports, everybody knew "nobody but Americans would do a damn fool thing like this." They sat out a typhoon in Hong Kong, a binge and hangover at Amoy. Flying in loose formation, they worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke...
...Just Thinking." One day last week, in the early afternoon sun, Giuseppe stood staring at his steam roller. "Well, Giuseppe, what are you doing there?" asked a worker, one Tomaso Sonnino. "Nothing. Just thinking," said Giuseppe. "Wondering what would happen if nobody could stop this thing. This one and all the others, just rolling on forever...
...acting a bit odd that day himself. "When I saw the hunt coming," says he, "I called my neighbors. They grabbed the nearest implements they could get and lined the gate with me. If the Blazers try to hunt our lands we'll use force if necessary to stop them." At Moorpark Cross, other farmers patrolled the covert with rakes, and every day still others joined the boycott against the Blazers...