Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian people could claim a share of the credit. They had dug deep into their jeans to pay boosted income taxes, to buy victory bonds. Canada's tough, able Price Policeman Donald Gordon did the rest. Among other things, he poured out subsidies (to bridge the gap between fixed prices and rising costs) at a $140,000,000-a-year clip...
Cuba's tough ex-President. Fulgencio Batista, was not in Cuba last week. He was making an ambitious tour of South America. Proclaiming himself a democratic hero, he blandly accepted praise for unexpectedly allowing his hand-picked candidate, Carlos Saladrigas, to be defeated for President in a fair election...
Wonders to Come. As liquid or vapor, silicones are sprayed on all sorts of materials to make them waterproof; they form a thin, invisible film which does not change the feel of the material. As oil or grease, they make ideal lubricants. As plastics, they are extremely tough. Some silicone wonders promised by engineers...
...legs, is to be devalued. The French Government denied all these reports, indignantly denounced them as "disturbing." But there were plenty of other reasons for the French to be disturbed about the delicate health of the franc. The main fact was the De Gaulle Government is still attacking the tough problem of French inflation in piecemeal fashion, has as yet had little success...
Tourist Army. Paris buzzed last week that the French Government is readying new-and tough-deflationary measures. Talk of a moderate capital levy was in the air. But there was more talk that France would issue a new currency, get a line on war profits when the old francs were exchanged for the new. With so much advance warning, much of the effect this might have has already been lost...