Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spellman-Roosevelt controversy [TIME, Aug. 1]: as a Catholic, and as an American, I am in full accordance with the views of the cardinal. There are many Catholics, however, who feel that he was unduly harsh...
...McCarran had bottled up in his Judiciary Committee the liberalized D.P. bill which the Administration was determined to push through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such old Un-American Activities Committee favorites as Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, baying off onto the subject of spies in the U.N. secretariat. McCarran was in a hurry to admit only one set of immigrants: 250 sheepherders to solve a labor shortage in his own state of Nevada...
Pleasure Boats & Violins. Potentially, says Moulton, the natural resources and the productive capacity of the U.S. could, in the year 2049, support a population of 300 million at a standard of living eight times as high as today's. In this bright future, each American would spend eight times as much as he does today for food, 16 times for housing, 20 times for clothing, and 33 times for recreation and travel...
...will last 40 years, lower-grade ore some 600 years. Moulton also expects new deposits to be discovered. New techniques will further stretch existing supplies. Example: gas turbines are so cheap and efficient that one day a turbine the size of a dial telephone may power the American automobile...
Although President Truman, who appointed McCabe, has done plenty of talking about raising taxes, the FRB chairman's remedy was just the opposite. The big trouble now, said Tom McCabe, was that there was a great shortage of risk capital, although "such risk taking has long been an American tradition." Businessmen either did not have the cash or found investment too risky in the face of high taxes. The thing to do, he said, was to ease taxes on business and businessmen. McCabe recommended that Congress study the entire tax structure, and consider such changes...