Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surplus-some of which the U.S. has been eating point-free this summer. This time OPA plans to market the entire pack. Sugar rationing will get no lighter, as supplies are 25% below 1941. Probably used cars will be rationed by year's end, clothes will not. Shoemen fear an end to shoe rationing...
...same, Guatemala tingled with excitement. The fear-struck silence was gone. The press was free. Independent political parties were springing up. The people had not lost hope...
...tall, spare economist from the University of Denver, Dr. Abraham David Hannath Kaplan, returned from an economic expedition into darkest Reconversion last week with an assurance to U.S. businessmen that in the early postwar world they have little to fear. His report was his book The Liquidation of War Production (McGraw-Hill; $1.50), second of the projected series by the research division of the Committee for Economic Development...
Even now, with materials piled up every where, and only China, which is a logistics problem, not supplied to the point of oversupply, the Services insist on building the piles ever higher. Both Services could probably cut back many production pro grams even farther than they have. But both fear one thing deeply: that man power, seeing the war program ending, will desert in droves to the security of peace production jobs. They well know that after each war-plant cutback the workers prefer and seek peace-plant jobs, so that they will not soon be let out again...
Conference Worries. All the foreign delegates were anxious about the possibility that Congress might reject the work of the conference. U.S. bankers, the only American group articulate about the conference, have been highly critical of the whole proposal-perhaps partly out of fear of losing some of their power in foreign-exchange and foreign-investment business, partly out of dislike of all change and from misunderstanding of the Bretton Woods proposals. Some of the bankers' criticisms...