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...everything is larger than life, the theory got out of hand. Ever since World War II, successive governments have felt a compulsion to build by spending wildly-and to pay their bills by printing more money. As President in 1956-61, Juscelino Kubitschek performed prodiies of development: a new inland capital of Brasiília, a vast network of roads, thriving new steel and auto industries, all at a cost of giddy inflation and staggering debt. His successor, Jânio Quadros, recognized the dangers, but quit after seven months, leaving the economy at the mercy of Goulart...
...odor, which is noticeable as far inland as Mass. Ave., is particularly bad in the Harvard area because the Charles is shallower there...
...election-especially when fears of inflation do not seem to be deterring other industries from raising prices. In the past few weeks, prices have increased for copper, zinc, tin, chemicals, paper and rubber. Viewing all this, and perhaps anxious to test a harbinger of overall rise, U.S. Steel and Inland Steel last week increased by 17% the price of the reinforcing bars widely used in construction...
...fact, a lot is happening. Some 260,000 General Motors workers are on strike. A national dockworkers' strike has been postponed because President Johnson invoked the Taft-Hartley Act. Inland Steel Corp. Chairman Joe Block, the man who broke away from other steelmakers to support John Kennedy during the steel hassle in 1962, was making noises about a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). In South Viet Nam, the political and military situation was such that by November there might not be any pieces left for the U.S. to pick up. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week predicted that...
...speaker was not U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, from whom the words would have seemed familiar, or any of the other usual spokesmen for the steel industry. It was Joseph L. Block, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel and the man who, at President Kennedy's bidding, held the price line in 1962, thus forcing his colleagues to rescind their controversial price hikes...