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...C.E.D. called for still more drastic action in the "special case" of construction, where inflation has been especially virulent. It urged the National Labor Relations Board to compel building employers and unions to bargain in larger units, so that unions could no longer force inflationary settlements on small local contracting groups one by one. President Nixon, the C.E.D. said, should demand repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires payment of "prevailing" local wages on most federally assisted construction projects. In practice, that really means payment of the highest rate that any union has been able to wring...
Britain and France, fearful of being strangled by a cutoff of Suez traffic, joined the Israelis in 1956 in a surprise attack on Egypt. Though Nasser's forces were badly beaten, he was saved when the U.S. and the Soviet Union combined to compel all three nations to withdraw their forces...
...resume the feud. The flamboyant Kirk will be fully occupied in trying to win a second four-year term for himself. To Kirk's consternation, Millionaire Druggist Jack Eckerd, an ardent Nixon supporter whose ideological bent is fully as conservative as Kirk's, got enough votes to compel a runoff. In Florida, incumbents who fail to win renomination by getting the necessary 50% of the initial primary vote usually lose the second round. Kirk, Florida's first Republican Governor since 1876, is, however, accustomed to doing the unusual...
After all, if the FCC has forced the electronic media to carry messages against cigarettes because of the suspected link between smoking and disease and death, why not compel them to admit that war, too, may be injurious to human health...
...revival was a wages and prices or "incomes" policy established as follows: European monies were devalued and mortgaged to the U.S. government and private investors so that the prices of all European commodities, including the price of labor, expressed in dollars was extremely low-low enough, that is, to compel most European working people to subsist on diets less nutritious than those consumed in 1939. Marshall Plan administrators would only extend urgent aid to those governments (France in 1948, for example) which agreed, first of all, to subject their population to an austere wages and tax policy. Secondly, these countries...