Word: earmarks
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Canada, unlike Britain and the U.S., undertook to freeze both prices and wages at the Sept. 15-Oct. 11, 1941 level. Canada had tried temporary ceilings (wool, leather, bread, butter), but when it had to earmark half its national income for war, it decided to shoot the works. Its Wartime Prices and Trade Board has full licensing power (TIME, Dec. 1), by March 15 will have licensed every food & clothing retailer in Canada (some 200,000). But WPTB shares control over supplies with the War Industries Control Board, and has yet to ration anything but sugar...
...teeth (he needs only six uppers and six lowers which meet), Lieut. Commander Charles Raymond Wells, chief dental officer of Selective Service, told dentists they would soon be called on to help fix up men for the Army. In a short while, he said, the Federal Government will earmark funds for paying the bills of men who cannot afford them...
...there. Three more commodities were already being fitted for uniforms. First was zinc, of which the U. S. supply had dwindled to two days' worth. As a first step, last week trading was banned in zinc futures on the Commodity Exchange and producers were asked to earmark 5% of their April output for allotment...
...have sterilization laws. (The necessary operation does not preclude sexual relations.) But he is against compulsory sterilization for any other persons. Doctors should be educated to urge voluntary sterilization of persons known to be carriers of serious hereditary defects. Voluntary population control, he believes, is as much an earmark of sound eugenics as it is of Democracy. Genetic tools in the hands of dictatorial power, applied to the breeding of specific kinds of men and women, are dangerous and "not eugenic...
...Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution of WPA in 90 days and the return of Relief, still federally financed, to the States. Leaders of a movement to continue WPA but earmark its appropriations in Congress (contrary to President Roosevelt's wish), will be South Carolina's Byrnes and Montana's Murray, hitherto Administration...