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...Economist was not sure what the long-run effect of nationalization would be on the British economy; but it was quite sure that the government had not been running the nationalized industries long enough to have single-handedly created the dollar shortage...
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which has a synthetic-fuel pilot plant at Baton Rouge, is placing its long-run major bet on gasoline from coal. This week, Standard and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. broke ground at Library, Pa. for their pilot plant to gasify coal. The next step, a fairly simple one, will be to make petroleum from the gas. Said E. V. Murphree, president of the Standard Oil Development Co.: "Enough oil can be made from the nation's known coal reserves, alone, to last the U.S. for 1,000 years...
...Cuts here are both politically dangerous and detrimental to the security of the country. Social Security and welfare, highways, mail, radio regulation, atomic energy, flood control, reclamation, and the operation of Congress and the Courts, constitute another 16.1 percent. Cuts can be made here but only by sacrificing the long-run interest of the nation to the desire of the majority of Congress to carry a "good record" into the November elections. The remaining 2.7 percent provides for conservation and price supports for agricultural products, education, enforcement of the Taft-Hartley Act, strike mediation, and housing...
Normal winter increments in Widener reading room thievery were reported "under control" yesterday by John E. Shea, superintendent of the stack, as he pointed to a long-run reduction of felony over the past five years...
...fourth-year students would soon be idle and obsolete, or Massachusetts would be supporting a poor duplicate of the Massachusetts State College at Amherst. The alternative is to expand M.S.C. into a college that will be able to handle the large future demand for State education. Not only would long-run costs be smaller, but the last two years of college could be given more effectively at an established institution...