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Franklin Roosevelt's executive actions last week consisted mainly of a letter to the Federal Trade Commission's Chairman William Augustus Ayres, requesting the Commission to investigate a "marked increase in the cost of living . . . attributable, in part, to monopolistic practices and other unwholesome methods of competition." The Commission promptly promised to deliver to the President "as early as practicable" a report which observers guessed would be part of the groundwork for new anti-trust legislation in Congress' regular session this winter...
Stressed by the President was the recommendation that the farm program's cost should not exceed the current "soil conservation" appropriation of $500,000,000. Asked how he reconciled this with the fact that the Farm Bill made no provisions for raising the additional $250, 000,000 which it will probably cost the Government, the Committee's Chairman Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had no answer, left to the House the problem of raising additional revenue for the payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill...
...from a military point of view it would be best to make no attempt to defend Nanking. Generalissimo Chiang, who during the past seven years has spent millions embellishing his capital and mak-ing it the bright symbol of New China, unhesitatingly ordered Nanking's defense at any cost. "One day we intend to erect upon ruins," clarioned Chiang, "a new national structure which shall not perish...
Thus the professed aims of The Revolution (Rightist) have begun to approach those of The Revolution (Leftist)-while fighting each other in a war which up to now has cost Spain some 230,000 lives...
...first fact it calls attention to is the safety and reliability of over-ocean travel-30 transatlantic seaplane test flights made in 1937, and 7,000,000 passenger miles flown over the Pacific. Then the report plunges into the economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost about...