Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swollen Stream. Controls authorized by the special session of Congress, to go into effect Sept. 20, would put only a small damper on time-buying. The new regulation on auto purchases, for instance, calls for one-third down, the rest of the payment in 15-18 months. On household appliances, the down payment is only 20%, the rest in 15-18 months...
Said the Bulletin: "The increase in installment credit this year is of special significance because it is taking place notwithstanding the fact that the output of consumers' durable goods is no longer growing. Further expansion [of installment credit] . . . can only add more purchasing power to the already swollen spending stream and reinforce inflationary pressures...
...record high. At home the first flush of the postwar demand for cotton goods has worn off; New York bargain basements, for instance, are selling shirts for $2.95 which last year brought nearly twice as much. To many a Worth Streeter it looks as if the war-swollen cotton trade is going to be trimmed back to peacetime size...
...months of steady rains sent, the swollen Min River plunging through Fukien province, drowning a thousand people, flooding 50 towns. A million refugees crowded the highlands, mourning the loss of 80% of Fukien's rice harvest. Tungting Lake overflowed, ruining 50% of Hunan's rice. In Kiangsi Province, 60% of the rice was destroyed; in Kiangsu...
...came out of World War II with a swollen freight fleet and a passenger fleet shrunk to half the prewar size. When shipping companies laid plans to build up the passenger fleet from 350,000 tons, a lowly fifth among the nations of the world, they found themselves stranded by high building costs. Even with the $178 million which Congress had voted in shipping subsidies, shippers were afraid to take a chance on the big, fast ships which they need to compete on the North Atlantic and the U.S. needs for defense purposes (i.e., military transports). Last week, with...