Second, to guard our exports so that against the world's shortage we retain sufficient supplies for our own people, and to coöperate with the Allies to prevent inflation of prices; and, third, that we stimulate in every manner within our power the saving of our food in order that we may increase exports to our Allies to a point which will enable them to properly provision their armies and to feed their peoples during the coming winter.

Afterword: Your life insurance facing inflation, by David Gilbert & James P. Sullivan.

But the return of peace brought prompt inflation in response to exaggerated anticipations of prosperity to follow.

It is impossible to utter the first two lines emphatically without an act like that which they describe; bubble and trouble causing a momentary inflation of the cheeks by the retention of the breath, which is afterwards forcibly emitted, as in the practice of blowing bubbles.

To preserve thine honour, health, and to avoid therefore all those inflations, torments, obstructions, crudities, and diseases that come by a full diet, the best way is to feed sparingly of one or two dishes at most, to have ventrem bene moratum, as Seneca calls it, "to choose one of many, and to feed on that alone," as Crato adviseth his patient.

Then the stringency of the money market equalled the previous inflation.

I was discussing the inflation of prices and asking his advice as to how to increase one's income.

I know that they will lose all their majesty and glory, if they betray any inflation.