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Thiokol itself is not brand-new. It was accidentally discovered in 1929 by a chemist who was trying to concoct an antifreeze. Since 1930 it has been manufactured as a substitute for rubber, leather, cork. Typical uses: barrage balloon coatings, gas masks, gasoline hoses, washers, cable sheathing...
...Baltic States have been a specific point of issue in Russian discussions with the Allies. Renner's plan served as a trial balloon on this issue, and the howl that went up against Renner, especially on the part of small governments-in-exile, served warning that, if the large-state idea prevails after World War II, the green table of peace will rock...
...goods; New York City department-store inventories for April were 77% above last year, while sales showed only a 4% increase. To correct the maldistribution, WPB announced it would soon curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...
Evidence of sabotage was near-conclusive. At Providence, R.I., it seemed strange that 15 fires should spring up in one area at once. At Keene, N.H., a small boy stumbled on to a burned-out candle in a paper bag attached to a small balloon...
With the production program finally over the hump, the nation is faced with a six-billion purchasing power increase which, combined with an even greater decrease in consumers' goods production, can produce a fifteen-billion dollar inflation balloon. Danger from rising prices and a dislocated economy can not be met by "soaking the rich" alone. The six-billion demand increase is almost entirely in the hands of members of the lower income brackets and is not touched by the government's tax on individual and corporate surpluses. Paradoxically, with everyone employed and every sign of prosperity, the nation...