Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pledges & Publicity. On the domestic front, the 80th wrote the first major labor law in twelve years, and redressed the balance between labor and management. It found an equitable formula to reduce taxes. It passed a wise presidential-succession bill (proposed by the President), authorized unification of the services, and showed determination and foresight in overwhelmingly approving a 70-group Air Force in the face of Navy-minded opposition by the Administration. Its unwillingness to control prices reflected its G.O.P. majority's faith in a free economy, its distaste for peacetime controls...
...Passed the Fellows bill to admit 202,000 D.P.s over the next two years, a more generous formula than the Senate's discriminatory Wiley-Revercomb bill. ¶ Passed a farm-price support bill to continue present support policy until 1950. ¶ Received the Andrews draft bill from its Rules Committee, where it had been bottled up for five weeks...
...Leader. "The most remarkable change of all has been the emergence from the group of little-known militarists of a President-General who could be confused with no one else in history. With a superb sense of showmanship and a keen perception of the old Hitlerian formula that nonsense begins to make sense if repeated often enough, the President has been molding the public mind to consider him as the economic emancipator of Argentina, even as San Martin was its political emancipator. The fact that Argentina is undergoing one of the worst financial crises of its history...
...foreign editions) for the State Department. He reported: "It is naive to say 'let private enterprise carry the ball,' and at the same time ignore the fact that there are widening areas in which private enterprise can no longer operate in a normal manner . . . Unless some formula is found for keeping private information services alive, we will end up in the ridiculous position of sending billions in goods overseas without at the same time giving people abroad any indication of where these goods came from or what kind of free society produced them...
...pompous way," smiles Joe, "I conceived ours as a column of information -halfway between pure opinion and what is essentially gossip. I felt there had been no formula for the use of material in this area as news or opinion...