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...idle small plants to work. (Best example of how the plan is working: Manhattan retailers found a surprising number of plants in their area which could increase civilian goods production tomorrow with materials already cached in Manhattan warehouses, where they have been frozen under a months-old WPB blanket freeze order...
...Trip Out. He personally got along all right until the trucks and jeeps had to be abandoned and the walking began. Then, besides his severe malaria, he developed four excruciating sores on his feet. On May 14 General Stilwell caught him resting in a blanket. "What's the matter, Seagrave, got fever?" "No, sir, I got wet and felt a little cold so was warming up." "How are your feet?" "Better, sir." "You are lying...
...subsidies will work because Britain and Canada have used them to good advantage* overlooks the fact that the U.S. situation differs widely from the other two: 1) Britain and Canada have both concentrated on a few strategic cost-of-living items; the U.S. is trying to maintain a blanket ceiling on all prices; 2) in England, most cost-of-living items are imported, which makes Government control much simpler and cheaper; 3) in both Canada and Britain wage control has been facturers will make no more than the prewar number of cotton and rayon blends...
...Blanket Ban. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned all Oriental immigration. What particularly humiliates the Chinese is that, among all Orientals, including Japs, they alone are specifically singled out by name in U.S. law as undesirable citizens. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the result of a California labor surplus (thousands of coolies helped build the U.S. railroads). But the Act, long obsolete, is still on the books...
California's 73-year-old Amadeo Peter Giannini is probably the world's most ardent exponent of branch banking. His huge Bank of America, fourth largest bank in the U.S., is an agglomerate of 30 years of Giannini acquisitions. Its 487 branches blanket the state of California. Its parent company, Transamerica Corp. (whose stock is so popular with California Italians that it sometimes accounts for almost half the trading on the San Francisco Stock Exchange), owns a majority interest in 23 other West Coast banks, plus a juicy 8.7% of Manhattan's National City Bank...