Word: drained
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...
...Petroleum Co., which used 81% of the money to bail out creditors; and $975,000 to Reno's Mapes Hotel, which gets a big part of its income from a thriving gambling concession. Congressional probers had found that 50% of all RFC business loans had gone down the drain of shaky companies instead of being used to finance new ventures...
Grace's claim was not as fantastic as it sounded. In World War II the biggest drain on U.S. steel production came from the simultaneous need to build a whole new Navy and a vast cargo fleet, plus hundreds of new oil refineries, aluminum plants, synthetic rubber plants, steel mills, etc. War in Asia had found the U.S. with most of these facilities in use or in reserve. Thus, even the heavier requirements for aircraft and tank production now would come far from matching the huge needs of World...
Bigger Target. To make up for the drain of the cold war, and provide for growing numbers of retired workers, C.E.D. thought that the U.S. would have to step up production in the future. The Government could make some major contributions to higher productivity, mainly through tax reforms, such as a quicker write-off of new machinery, and adjustment of taxes which now discourage investors...
...delicate negotiations. Observers guessed that Gaitskell was inching toward agreement with the continental nations when his mentor, Sir Stafford Cripps, gradually withdrew from the talks and went off on a vacation. Gaitskell and his OEEC colleagues finally worked out a scheme to save Britain from an excessive dollar drain. It agreed to admit not merely Britain but the entire sterling area to EPU, and to provide special safeguards against a run on Britain's dollar reserves; e.g., member nations may not demand dollars in exchange for "old sterling" earned before July 1950. Meanwhile, other events helped to calm British...