Word: fiat
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...exhibition at Minneapolis, but already in production, is Wright's first venture in mass-produced fine china. It is ruthlessly free from china's historic fragility and flossiness. Says he: "China lovers are going to be scandalized at the use of the material." Saucers and plates are fiat and thick, the rims slightly raised and rounded to cut down chipping. Grips depressed into the china eliminate most handles, require less table and shelf space...
...most pungent words came from tousled William H. Davis, who was first chairman of the old War Labor Board. Said he: ". . . Settlement of labor disputes by Government fiat is destructive of all the creative values of collective bargaining. ... I cannot impress [on you] too earnestly . . . the absolute necessity to realize that we must now return to self-government. This is far more important than any immediate crisis that seems to confront...
...Compared to the distribution of 1939, the reallocation required in 1946 may be almost as far-reaching as it was in converting to a war economy. The reallocation in 1942 was accomplished by Government fiat-by issuing priorities, by rationing, etc. The U.S. would not stand for such re-allocations in peacetime. The postwar reallocation of the nation's resources must mostly take place through adjustments in prices...
Such continued bickering would "do irreparable harm to the end which we all seek in the name of national security: the comradeship of all branches of the armed service. Once destroyed . . . that spirit cannot be revived by any legislative fiat or organizational chart...
...Fiat. As the returns came in, disappointed Harry Truman decided that the Labor-Management Conference was his last bulwark against industrial strife. He summoned the delegates to the White House; all week long they trooped in to listen to a dead-serious plea for help...