Word: supplementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just 18 days after Premier Stalin made his not-yet-fulfilled election promise to abolish rationing and lower food prices, Moscow announced price slashes as high as 60% in foodstuffs. The cuts applied only to the commercial gastronomes, where groceries are sold (at high mark ups) to supplement standard 'rations. Bread and cigarets fell 50%, sugar 33%, coffee 40%, meat 20%, vodka and wines...
...Japanese Government, with the approval of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, increased its efforts to check the mounting inflationary trend. To supplement a stiff war-profits tax ordered by SCAP (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific) last fall, the Government has prescribed a set of anti-inflationary measures which one U.S. correspondent dubbed SCAPitalism: 1) restriction of cash incomes to a monthly maximum of 500 yen (about $33 at the present arbitrary rate of exchange); 2) freezing of bank accounts (individuals may not withdraw more than 300 yen a month); 3) collection and distribution of essential...
...take a long rest" and probably a permanent one, from the Sunday supplement's editorship, went slight, sharp Martin J. ("Mike") Porter. In, as the fourth editor in its 50 flamboyant years, went portly, white-haired Walter Howey, 63-year-old veteran troubleshooter- the real-life model of the heartless managing editor in Front Page. He had been publisher just four months (TIME, Aug. 13), but was glad to move over-and down a notch- to make room for Young Bill...
...book which TIME researchers call their "bible." It catalogues sources of information on almost every possible news subject, and every one of TIME'S 55 researchers has a copy. Of course the researchers supplement this book with many other procedures to "block that boner" (for example, they are required to pencil a dot over every word in every article to show they have checked it)-and in addition, six or more writers and editors work on every story...
Health men hope the organization can get going in time to supplement UNRRA -or take over where temporary UNRRA leaves...