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...complete willingness and eagerness to rename a Canadian town Lidice. Frelighsburg, where M. Godbout has a large farm) Was selected by the Quebec Government for the ceremony. An emissary was sent to Frelighsburg to notify them of their selection. At the very moment of his arrival, a news leak occurred in Canada resulting in stories in the Canadian press that the town was going to have its name changed. There had not yet been time to consult the mayor of the town. The mayor was aggrieved and refused to permit renaming. I have letters from M. Godbout expressing his regret...
...agreed to pay the extra costs of taking gasoline to the East Coast by rail instead of tanker. This will enable Henderson to cancel a 2½?-a-gallon rise in East Coast prices, batten down his ceiling where it had already sprung a leak...
...Eastern seaboard gasoline leak up through its price ceiling again last week-up 2? to cover the cost difference between tanker transportation before Pearl Harbor and rail transportation now. It was a real setback for price control, but it was not the kind of setback that people would get excited over. The average citizen found it hard to see any moral reason why the taxpayer should be soaked for a subsidy of up to $100,000,000 to make it cheaper for motorists to buy gasoline the Government would much rather they would not buy. For the time being, fuel...
Federal Reserve officials let the word leak out this week. One effect, desired by the Treasury, is to make it easier for the war industries to borrow. Second effect will be to keep money cheap for the government itself, the largest borrower in the world...
...World War I experience-after piecemeal stopgaps had failed. Now the U.S. was in the same fix. Price Boss Leon Henderson, who had tried to control prices by tackling them one at a time, was like a man with a rotted garden hose; as soon as he repaired one leak, a new one popped...