Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the U.S. would do its best to clamp down on the black markets, straighten the currency muddle, extend credit and speed the shipment of goods to the islands. Last week the Administration also made up its mind on trade policy; it would ask Congress to give the Philip pines free trade with the U.S. for eight years and tariffs which would rise gently for 25 years after that...
Harry Truman flew back from a weekend in Independence, Mo., to try to straighten things out. He already had a hint-in the Senate Finance Committee's rejection of his proposal to raise unemployment compensation to $25 a week for 26 weeks-of how basic was the conflict...
...free way of painting what he sees, Dong has a characteristic western explanation: "Nature is really very messy. It is the artist's job to straighten...
...September issue of Pic, completely redesigned. Readers of the previous dime, 50-page Pic, which was full of sleazy cheesecake, will hardly recognize the old girl in her new hairdo. The magazine has a new editor-tall, boyish Victor H. Wagner-and he has an assignment to make Pic straighten up and fly right after eight years of floundering...
...Rubber Boss. When Jeffers went to Washington in 1942 to straighten out the rubber program, his loud ways proved effective. Critics sneered that all he had was a "good publicity man." But plain citizens were delighted at the way he exploded at Congressmen and "bunglers." He bulled through half of the rubber program at a time when a battering ram was more effective than a reasoned argument. When he went back to his $75,000 a year job with the U.P. (later he carefully collected the 97? which Uncle Sam owed him on his $1 a year salary), the rubber...