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...organization or institutions . . . There is not a single Jewish newspaper or periodical throughout the length and breadth of the Soviet Union. Hebrew is forbidden. Religious instruction and everything that smacks of religious tradition is under the same ban . . . Everything Jewish is either eliminated or else suffocated under a heavy blanket of official silence...
Galbraith would reinforce the high taxes with indirect controls, such as those already imposed on consumer and real estate credit, as well as certain "selective" price controls on crucial materials like copper and rubber. But the "heavy artillery" of blanket price controls must by all means be held back, he said, until we have some idea of a terminal point. "Price controls become less effective the longer they remain in existence," he explained...
When a Milwaukee taxicab company once gave each of the city's 27 aldermen an electric blanket for Christmas, most of them gratefully accepted the gift even though the aldermen control taxicab rates. They soon wished they hadn't. Reason: the Milwaukee Journal caught wind of the story, promptly played it on Page One. For Milwaukee, the Journal thought it added up to a major political scandal...
...ceiling from prices it will pay domestic producers of some strategic materials. Previously, it would pay U.S. suppliers no more than 25% higher prices than those paid to foreign producers. The board will take off price restrictions on a few badly needed materials, will try to avoid a blanket increase. With the new high prices, the board hopes to persuade U.S. miners to develop low-grade deposits of such metals as manganese, copper and zinc, thus speed up its lagging stockpiling program...
...this silence? wonders Dr. Louis N. Ridenour, dean of the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, in the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Are radiological poisons ineffective? Or are they so deadly that atom-minded governments have smothered all mention of them under blanket security...