Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public he said that holding prices in line was as much its job as it was Government's. To the Congress he said that if the bill and the people themselves fail to dam inflation he would call Congress back into a special session to frame a stronger act...
Last week Paul Porter tried to put a brave face on the law that extends rent controls and his job. But the act opened the way to rescaling of ceilings on thousands of items, and Porter warned 'that many prices-particularly on clothing-would surely rise. Best guess on new automobile ceilings: $75 to $100 more on standard low-priced models...
...act was still Andy May. When he stepped on the stage, the rest would retire to the wings...
...which makes even mountain climbing interesting to some of the more slothful members. These girls, however, can take care of themselves. Some of them carry a 60 pound pack up a 5000 foot mountain or bike 90 miles in a day. Incidentally, a young couple accompanies the group to act as chaperones...
Less solid still are the underpinnings of the correspondent on this page. His resources, apparently, are sufficient to cover all whims of the national economy. An idealist, he ignores his own self-interest, finding a knightly virtue in the act of suppressing evil, the evil of being a "have not." It is hardly necessary to point out the naivete of the economic reasoning of the writer, nor even the latent danger of such a social philosophy. However, he gives voice to one of the most common popular fallacies, that "scarcity is caused by under-production." Scarcity may be caused just...