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To Build the Ark. But WPB's action was like slipping a raincoat on the economy to prepare for the deluge of cutbacks and contract cancellations to come. The big job of building the ark was up to Congress. In galloping haste, War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes hustled up...
The U.S. heard some plain talk last week on reconversion. It came from War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes in a speech before the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan. His most significant point: the harsh realities are at hand; big war plants are going to close down; in the...
Up Benefits. Then Jimmy Byrnes came to grips with the question of dismissal pay for war workers. The Administration has pointedly ignored labor's demands for pay to tide over the men suddenly washed out of war jobs. The Baruch-Hancock report (TIME, Feb. 28) had likewise sidestepped the...
The Byrnes alternative: a boost in state unemployment benefits, with the extra cost to be paid for by the Government. To make this workable, Congress would have to pass a "federal demobilization law." This would: 1) scale benefits according to previous earnings, with an additional allowance for dependents; 2) cut...
Down Taxes. Jimmy Byrnes, praising the Baruch-Hancock report, promised U.S. industry that as much of it as possible would be made effective by Presidential order, pending Congressional action. But on the question of taxes, which many a U.S. businessman considers the No. 1 postwar problem, Jimmy Byrnes was vague...