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...feeling, for the first time in living memory, that much of the U.S. might be devastated in an all-out war. This didn't put people in a cold sweat; it did put them in a mood to buckle down...
...were overwhelmingly in favor of price controls, though not so eager for either wage controls or rationing-which both Harry Truman and Bernard Baruch agreed go hand in hand with price control. Pennsylvania's Republican John Kunkel announced in the House that he was going to introduce an all-out, Baruch-like control bill. Since this reversed the Republicans' previous stand, Truman Democrats suspected a trap. There was no machinery ready to ration all goods and police all prices across the land; the Administration feared chaos would result. Democrats well remembered their 1946 congressional defeat (when the G.O.P...
While the Reds massed for their all-out drive, U.S. marines and infantry last week launched a counterattack to try and keep the enemy off balance in the south. Meanwhile, there would probably be further but limited U.N. withdrawals on the north and northwest fronts, which are defended only by lightly armed South Korean troops...
...Congress gave him the taxes and limited powers he had requested, Truman insisted, inflation could be avoided without all-out controls. He declared that "serious shortages of consumer goods will not develop unless they are created artificially." He urged buyers to "refrain from hoarding or avarice," urged producers to practice "restrained pricing," asked labor to avoid "wage demands of a character which might lead to another inflationary spiral...
...knows whether this peril is simply the ancient Oriental device of inflicting a thousand cuts [where] no one of the cuts is fatal, but over a long enough period the victim dies. It may be the thousand cuts or it may be all-out atomic warfare . . . The hour is very late . . . Whether we still have a day or a year or three years or ten years, not a second should be lost...