Word: cruncher
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...last week, just as the new dresses were going on sale, CPA dropped a cruncher: most of L85 would stay in effect indefinitely. In fact, said CPA, there had never been any intention of dropping it. CPA also emphasized the penalty for sellers of extra-legal dresses: one year in prison or $10,000 fine, or both. What could retailers, stuck with the unsalable dresses, do? (One New York syndicate alone had $1,000,000 worth on hand...
...Words. What gave the British their solidest satisfaction was a ruling of the Fund governors on the meaning of "fundamental disequilibrium," a gobbledygook economic cruncher imbedded deep in the Bretton Woods charter...