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These were iron-hard facts for any Congressman to face. Yet they will be implacably implicit in all the lesser issues over which Congress will wrangle before it passes a tax law. Some issues...
Fact is, the railroads needed it. A rate rise was implicit in the deal by which they gave their labor a wage increase of $330,000,000 last November. Besides, it will cost railroaders this year an extra $25-30,000,000 to keep saboteurs off tracks and trains. And higher equipment and raw material costs will run them into unguessable millions...
...appeal for cooperation is being used rather than the force implicit in a rationing system. "Rationing would be difficult to enforce and it might entail considerable hardship for indiduals," said Lyon Southworth, assistant director of the Laboratories...
...only take issue with Kemler on his underemphasis of the lack of planning and of long-range goals, implicit in the Administration's experimental attitude. It is true that he admits "the developmental implications of the various measures fly off at tangents--often in contradiction to one another." But he tends to pass off this defect a little too lightly. He agrees that "we must adopt a more explicit plan," but he doesn't consider the possible conflicts between his deflation of ideals and the development of long-range objectives...
Taylor continued by warning against implicit faith in the democratic process by saying that, "The specious argument that a democracy should put unlimited trust in its government does not hold water" because one can not always be sure that the elected representative will act for the best interest of the people at large...