Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week neither Democrats nor Republicans were yet willing to yield another inch. House Republicans brought out a bill including part of what Harry Truman wanted (export and transportation controls) but stressing the Republican program for voluntary action. When the G.O.P. tried to ram it through with a two-thirds voting procedure barring all amendments, a solid Democratic opposition killed the bill-and the probability of any anti-inflation action before Christmas...
...well as painfully esoteric writing, but now it seems to have arrived safely on firm, green ground. The current issue combines the magazine's previous virtues with a new one, short stories that are worth the type they use. Now the consistently fine poetry, drawings, and makeup all yield the spotlight to the place where it belongs-on the fiction...
...militia, mustered them out every morning at 6 for intensive calisthenics and political lectures. Rifles were few but spirits were high. When Fu drove out Communists he returned most land titles to the old owners but insisted that rents be sharply reduced (never more than a third of the yield). As a practical agrarian reformer, Fu pleased the people rather more than the Reds...
...battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
...higher income-tax bracket. Thus, the average farmer held back from market more wheat than usual (near Larned, one farmer kept his entire crop-about $175,000 worth at last week's prices-in storage). Normally the Kansas holdback, a form of insurance against a poor yield the next year, is about 30% of crop. This year elevators and farm bins are clogged with about 150 million bushels of wheat-50% of the crop and more than one-fourth of the breadgrains the U.S. hopes it can send to Europe this winter...