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Word: hardwaremen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ironpants") Johnson. Said he: "You can't stop a skyrocket advance in prices of everything merely by tying prices of a few things to the ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government can't control the price level and stop the upward spiral." But unlike Johnson, he concluded the Government should keep hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Now Priorities; Next Prices? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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