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...flour from pastries and other products, there would probably be a bread shortage in many communities. But all these measures were by hindsight. They would add no kernels to the grain the U.S. had promised to deliver to the famine lands. At best, they would do no more than avert a failure to meet U.S. commitments...
...work a special hardship on a manufacturer, the individual case should be corrected; all ceilings should not be eliminated. Removal of food subsidies by the end of the year is especially ill-timed, coming at a moment when humane decency calls for a renewal of food rationing to help avert world famine. Without subsidies, food prices will rise, and farmers will hardly turn produce over to the UN at low prices when the sky is the limit on the home market...
...exact unconditional surrender of the American people and the United States Government. . . . The steel industry now has the full and sole responsibility for the strike which must take place. . . ." . Had Big Steel really been merely stubborn in refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with Phil Murray, emerged to announce that he had signed with the Steelworkers at 18½? for his plant at Fontana, Calif, (which employs only 3,000 men and enjoys a favorable price differential...
...thinks the spread of Basic as a globalingo could help avert war, and he also believes it would end such peacetime horrors as the outburst by the visiting Symphony conductor to his chattering London musicians: "Don't spoke! I stand it then and now, but always, my God, never!" Richards is convinced that English is becoming the world's language; the only issue is whether it will be Basic English or broken English...
Obviously there are two ways to avert an atomic war. One is a voluntary yielding of sovereignty by all nations to a world government. This alternative is impossible in time to check the atomic armaments race which has already begun and which will soon produce its inevitable sequel. The other alternative road to peace is immediate action by the United States, Britain, and Canada to disarm the remaining-world before atomic know-how spreads abroad...