Word: di
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countryman from Waco, Texas-would put all prices on a cost-plus basis, thus guaranteeing industry a profit on every item it makes, no matter how basically unprofitable any item might be. The Poage amendment, besides requiring more accountants than there are in the world (said Price Controller Mike Di Salle), would blow price ceilings into the stratosphere...
Amendments were put up, passed or rejected, sometimes at a rate of one every two minutes. In about eight hours, 75 amendments were disposed of. At 1:10 a.m., while Mike Di Salle and Stabilizer Eric Johnston watched, stony-faced, from the gallery, the House rattled out its version of the controls bill, by a final 323-to-92 vote...
South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank, sponsor of the bill, didn't have anything against Price Stabilizer Michael Di Salle, he said. "I know the troubles he has had . . . But how do I know who is going to be in charge [of prices] next month, or month after next, or in January?" Authority to roll back prices to pre-Korean level was more White House power than Maybank was willing to put into law again. The Administration had had the power in the expiring act but had flubbed it. "The truth is," said Maybank, "the Administration has failed...
...calculated to prove that 1) the official is wonderful, 2) his opponents are not to be trusted and 3) all is well in Government. For example, Lieut. Colonel Ted Clifton, special aide to General Omar Bradley, is known as "Bradley's leak," Paul Duncan as Price Boss Mike Di Salle...
Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...