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...last week everybody had taken a crack at OPA. Congress had worn it down, making price boosts to jibe with a new set of rules. Ceilings on grain and dairy products had been knocked over the fence in the Price Decontrol Board's big inning. Last week it was the Department of Agriculture's turn to humble Washington's once-powerful price fixers...
...hard as he tried, Chester Nimitz never succeeded in explaining his reversal of position, or in making his arguments jibe with his new conclusions. Rather, they tended to justify his original promerger stand. Many of his suddenly real ized objections to merger were just as valid on Dec. 8, 1944. But now he said: "We should be certain that we do not destroy the strengths of our present sys tem in accepting a new and untried...
Energetic Embryo. So runs the Jackson legend. Now Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., son of the professor of American History at Harvard University, in a brilliant justification of the New Deal disguised as a history of the age of Jackson, says that the legend and the facts do not jibe at all. In 577 pages, he implies that the "Jacksonian Revolution," which finally drove the Federalists out, and brought entirely new social forces into political power in the U.S., was just the Roosevelt revolution in embryo. The social forces that broke the Federalists and the power of the "mercantile classes...
...York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Chabot Smith made the serious charge that on two successive days official announcements of Fifth Army progress failed to jibe with the operational maps. Headquarters lamely explained that patrols had reached forward points, then came back. Even the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes dared to raise the question with the headline: "Is or Isn't the Gothic Line Cracked?" Wrote Correspond ent Sergeant Jack Foisie...
...total includes the sick as well as the wounded, and patients who were moved more than once by air, thus does not jibe with casualty totals...