Word: extends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prices were too high, and further inflation still threatened. Extend and strengthen rent controls for two years, said Harry Truman; give the President stand-by authority to impose ceilings on some prices and wages, power to control consumer credit, regulate speculation on commodity exchanges and allocate materials in short supply...
Other intercollegiate meets planned for the new term include swimming meets at the Pine Manor, Wellesley Play Days and competition in modern dance and lacrosse. Miss Harriet Clarke gym instructor, also wants to extend Radcliffe extra-mural fencing, and several girls are already attending local fencing club activities...
This he termed "a fair deal." The New Deal for the American people is no longer "new." It is, as Truman said, what "every segment of our population and every individual has a right to expect from his government." Truman wants to extend and correct this program. Part of his message was directed at the short-range danger of inflation and threats of a recession, but more significant was the long-range schedule of needed social legislation, proposals that will be fought all the way by the "gluttons of privilege" he blasted in the fall campaign...
...inflation ahead for the U.S.? Or a price-lowering recession? The Administration, along with many businessmen, could not agree on a forecast. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer thought the danger was inflation. In a report to President Truman, Sawyer asked that the new Congress extend the waning life of all present business controls (on exports & imports, scarce metals, etc.). He clearly indicated that he would also like some potentially stiffer "standby" controls...
...written and sent to the House Committee. It shows that the House Committee's business has a lot more to do with your business, and your roommate's business, that most non-alarmist people probably realized a few days ago. And anybody who could help the House Committee to extend its business in this way automatically discredits himself as a political figure, at least among those people who object to House Committee investigations of the Thomas variety...