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...crucial spring he would want all the help he could get from France both inside France and wherever French forces might profitably go into action. Pierre Laval was the man willing to deliver that help, whether he found himself a shield & buckler for the Führer or a cushion for Hitler's backside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: That Flabby Hand, That Evil Lip | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...promise of ⅓ of the monthly profits -and the organizers went away. Hartford Electric Steel profit-sharing now amounts to a tidy $40 per month per employe. Last December Sam decided that Hartford Electric Steel was a good place to try the Ferguson post-war wage-cushion plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-WAR: Sam Ferguson Looks Ahead | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...during fiscal 1943. But the President abolished none of them, merely short-rationed each program. > New taxes of seven billion dollars must be levied, plus another two billion dollars of social-security collections (this latter fund would not reduce the deficit; would serve as a post-war works-financing cushion) (see p. 15). > To control inflation the President called for a rounded, integrated program of direct price controls, a flexible tax policy, allocations, rationing, credit controls and producers' and consumers' cooperation. > Most chilling passages in the message: "I do not at present propose general consumer ration cards. . . . These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Put It in Figures-- | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

United and Sperry were agreed on the need for a cushion, but they disagreed on a vital point: United included its $4,000,000 reserve in "cost of sales" (i.e., deducted it before figuring taxes); Sperry pessimistically figured its taxes first. If the Treasury should rule in favor of United, these rainy-day fiscal policies may become much more popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRCRAFT: Transformation to Peacetime | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...profit with little or no competition, the shipping men agreed that the U.S. merchant marine could and should dominate them even when the low-cost Danes, Italians, etc. return to the sea. Methods: 1) Cash reserves must be built up to pay in full for efficient new tonnage now, cushion competitive losses later. 2) Economic changes abroad must be studied in advance, and new kinds of service devised. 3) An international understanding on trade routes and tariffs is essential. So are continued U.S. Government subsidies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Post-War Planning Week | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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