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...first time since 1929, the government proposed not only to impose no new taxes but to reduce present taxes. ¶ There would be more free enterprise. Great Britain, said Butler, will "step out from the confines of restriction to the almost forgotten but beckoning prospects of freer endeavor and greater reward for effort...
Osborn's style is faintly reminiscent of Cartoonist William Steig's bitter comments on humanity, and the title of his first postwar collection was obviously inspired by Steig's famed caption, "People Are No Damn Good." But where Steig sometimes turns soft and subtle, Osborn is freer and more frightening. With wild, axlike penstrokes, he carves out vicious children, rich dowagers, tyrants and tycoons. Heads become onions festooned with spikes; eyes are thin slits or insane whirls...
Agriculture. In the face of a farm-prices decline begun two years ago, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has been traveling across the land explaining the Administration's ultimate aim when the present price-support law expires in 1954: flexible price supports which allow freer operation of the forces of the market place, while still giving adequate protection to the farmer. Last week the President recalled a sentence in the Republican platform to indicate what that policy would be like; "A prosperous agriculture with free and independent farmers is fundamental to the national interest...
...great shift in the U.S. economy from Government controls to freer enterprise picked up momentum. Following hard on the removal of wage curbs and the lifting of price ceilings from many consumer goods (TIME, Feb. 16), the Administration last week...
...businessmen demanding a reduction in U.S. tariffs the voice of Henry Ford II was added this week. The U.S., said Ford Motor Co.'s boss in a speech scheduled before the Inland Daily Press Association, "can and should step forth boldly and lead the free world toward freer trade" by elimination of all tariffs and other restrictions. In turn, "if foreign countries want American private capital, it's fair to ask that they act in a way which will encourage the American investor" by "guarantees against expropriation of property and the elimination of inequitable double taxation...