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...would urge the President to permit voluntary wage-rate increases arrived at through collective bargaining, even where they break the Little Steel formula. One condition: that employers do not ask a corresponding increase in prices. One exception: they were willing to order wage boosts above the formula in exceptional hardship cases, even if higher prices were necessary...
Until they can rebuild their city Berliners will live in hardship, but the degree of hardship can also be exaggerated. Compared to life in any city in the U.S., it would be extreme. Compared to the Parisian twelve weeks after Paris was liberated, the Berliner is not so badly off. His greatest lack is shelter, which he finds by living in cellars, in temporary wooden barracks, or, in most cases, with somebody else. This is uncomfortable in the summer. In cold weather, as the Parisians found last winter, it makes it a little less cold...
Elsewhere in the nation the labor situation was relatively calm, but uneasy. Strikes involving 6,000 men at Toledo's Spicer Manufacturing Corp., 8,000 at Mobile's Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., 7,900 at Mack Manufacturing Corp. plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, threatened no immediate hardship to the armed forces. Detroit was quiet...
...lukewarm to the idea. But this time, it seemed, Congress would have to pass some such bill-if not what the President asked-for it was becoming painfully apparent that Harry Truman was right: there would be major unemployment in many places and, unless adequate relief was provided, serious hardship would follow both for labor and business-through no fault and beyond the control of either...
...years that the lack of money was of any consequence. I grew up to believe wholly and completely in men and women who lived simply, frugally, and in fine faith. I learned that fear was inspired in men and women who could not reconcile themselves to the possibility that hardship and sacrifice might confront them in battling for the right...