Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen was not alone in sacrificing. Britain, Canada, even abundant Argentine set in motion plans to tighten their citizens' belts, increase their food contributions to prevent a world tragedy (see INTERNATIONAL...
...budget was the pending $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan. Without that, warned Dalton, Britain would have to cut imports sharply, revamp all figures, tighten trade controls. But the "if" grew less "iffy"; the bill for the loan was sent to the U.S. Senate floor last week with a 14-to-5 vote of approval by the Banking & Currency Committee...
...Viscount Montgomery of Alamein last week chose this defense for a necessary reduction of German food rations in the British zone to a near-starvation 1,000 calories a day: "Germans gave the inmates of Beisen only 800 calories." Short, spare Montgomery added: "Big, overgrown Germans have got to tighten their belts...
...profits, basis of Perón's original draft), and the frank, understandable anger of management. Some employers would certainly refuse to pay, if only to test the constitutionality of the decree, but time had run out. A Supreme Court decision against the measure would merely tighten Perón's claims that all but he were foes of labor...
...Chubby Tory M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who all along had been against the loan, against unblocking sterling, against Bretton Woods, took one look at the U.S. offer, said it would mean "dismemberment of the British Empire." He asked Britons, whose belts have been tight for six years, to tighten them further, and predicted, "We can get through in any circumstances...