Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Again, on the subject of wage controls, no one was pressing for immediate action. "This is the stage where we can only study the problem," Professor Dunlop said, "while a lot of things work themselves out." Among these are the future Korean settlement and the resulting level of national military expenditures, as well as the November political elections...
...keeping down malaria. It is a big job, because the 10,000-mile shore line of TVA's lakes offers the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. From the beginning, Dr. Bishop was convinced that the best way to fight mosquitoes was to raise and lower the water level in the reservoirs periodically. The plan worked, hit no snag until World War II's power shortage, when an engineer objected to dumping precious water. The Authority's top brass settled the dispute with one brief order: "Dump water any time Bishop tells you to." A lot of water...
When compared to the high level of consumer income, credit actually was not quite as high percentagewise (9.5%) as in 1941, when the much smaller $9.8 billion of consumer credit was more than 10% of income. But FRB thought the rate of increase was too fast and should be slowed down...
...surprised to discover that the movie people generally lived, not on palatial estates, but in tidy suburbs resembling Baltimore's Roland Park and Cleveland's Shaker Heights. They proved excellent interviewees because "the level of frustration was high, and frustrated people love to talk." The anonymous case histories indicate that Hollywoodians are frustrated because 1) they make more money than other people in the U.S., and 2) are constantly worried about being fired...
...more specific. "Organized medicine cries now for voluntary health plans but does little to produce them. The record shows that when others have sought to do these things, organized medicine has obstructed them. A learned profession has sunk, or been dragged, in its political sphere, to a distressingly low level...