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Committee Democrats squirmed at Slichter's blunt insistence that the main cause of present-day creeping inflation is labor-union pressure for wage increases. Republicans winced at his equally blunt plea for a $3 billion deficit in the fiscal year ahead to stimulate the economy and shrink unemployment. Trying to be helpful, Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss said he was sure that Slichter did not really favor a deficit "as such." Retorted Slichter, touching off a burst of laughter: "I think...
...Skipjack is the result. After tests in a wind tunnel much like those for an airplane, the Navy settled on a length of 252 ft.-almost 70 ft. shorter than the Nautilus-a 31-ft. beam, and a blunt nose that makes her look more like a blimp than a ship. A tall, thin conning tower, which the crew calls a "sail," rises out of her rounded, whalelike back to give roll-stability and carry the forward control planes...
...spirited debate at the Medical School yesterday afternoon, liberal Senator Richard L. Neuberger and Congress-man Walter H. Judd, a "progressive-conservative," clashed over the "role of government in medicine"--and heard a blunt lecture from David D. Rutstein '30, professor of Preventive Medicine, on the specific needs of medical schools and hospitals...
Near the debate's end, moderator Rutstein asked his distinguished guests some blunt questions. "Senator Neuberger, all afternoon you have avoided the issue of socialized medicine, and talked only about government aid to research. Would you tell us, what is your stand?" Neuberger replied that "socialized medicine is no longer an issue, nor do I consider it desirable...
...There are still too many people who want work and can't find a job," said Labor Secretary James Mitchell in a blunt talk last week to civic leaders in the industrial town of Granite City, 111. Mitchell is keenly aware that production has bounced back from the recession faster than employment. Result: highest January unemployment (4,724,000) since World War II's start, including 9.3% of the work force jobless in the most densely industrial state, New Jersey...