Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this might mean in Big Power relations became apparent last week when the British speculated on whether their lend-leaseless poverty would force immediate withdrawal of military forces from Europe and the Far East to the detriment of Britain's postwar political position. Also directly involved was Britain's basic economic policy of government-controlled foreign trade and foreign exchange; as the price of U.S. credits, the U.S. might demand that Britain relax trade controls...
...National Foreign Trade Council, recognizing what many cartels have done to fix prices and control production to the detriment of consumers, would have the U.S. stand firm against cartels in home in dustry. But it would permit U.S. firms to make agreements with foreign cartels, require them to be filed with the Department of State. Unless the State Department found within three months that the agreement unreasonably restrained trade within the U.S., then the deal would be blessed by the Department...
...incompatible." Instead of his resignation, Littell wrote out a withering 12,000-word blast at his boss. The Attorney General of the U.S., Littell charged, was guilty of "confusion [and] superficiality of mind . . . frustration . . . personal vanity . . . devious ways . . . petty, personal animosity . . . intimate connections" with Lobbyist Tommy Corcoran to the detriment of the public interest. He charged that the Attorney General was "exasperated" because Littell had warned Congress of three shady-looking Administration schemes...
...chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting her with all the cozy intimacy of a vampire bat; and a local physician (Franchot Tone) who, somewhat to the detriment of the picture, is obviously a man she can depend...
...ROCKingham (the commons for the other half of Boston) Jack Cornwall and Ray Dunn financed some Texas horse to next year's paddock fees and pasture bills to the detriment of their own weekend plans...