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Thus, says Wiess, what the U.S. is saving by gasoline rationing is only enough to balance the decrease in gasoline production, leaving no fat to absorb the tremendous increase in overall demand. Can the U.S. boost production to meet this...
Ammunition: "Schedules have been cut back to absorb excess inventories...
...Government purchasing program to absorb high farm prices without letting retail ceilings rise on important cost-of-living items. For instance, this could be done if the Government bought up cattle at going market prices, resold to packers at a figure low enough to give the packers modest profits at current beef ceilings. In effect, the Government will buy up all cattle and sell them at a loss, with the taxpayer ponying up enough money to keep producers and processors in business...
...employer absorbs the tax, this amounts to a wage raise for the worker, and as a raise it must have the War Labor Board's approval to be legal. Employers of fewer than eight workers are exempt from WLB rules. Little businessmen in the Manhattan area alone, reported the New York Times, have been forced to absorb taxes that will run to millions of dollars a year. In effect, thousands of workers are thus on a strike against paying taxes to their Government...
Reluctant Guinea Pig. Some of Tom's stomach lining protruded in a rosette around the stoma. To absorb this membrane's secretions and the occasional leakage from inside, Tom wore a gauze bandage between meals. Sometimes the bandage irritated the rosette and it bled a little. When Tom worked as a sewer laborer during the depression, the bleeding got so bad that he had to let a surgeon remove some of the bleeding tissue. The convalescence was long and Tom had to go on relief. This hurt his pride-he had always managed to support his family...