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Whatever FRB's order does to the great U.S. institution of easy credit, it will have little effect on inflation. Though OPA last week estimated that the new restrictions would mop up $2 to $2.5 billions in potential credit, the inflationary gap between purchasing power and available consumers goods is already so huge that even a no-credit-at-all order would not solve the problem. The U.S. Department of Commerce has estimated that, even in normal times, 63½% of all retail sales are made for cash, 23½% on charge accounts, only 13% on the installment plan...
...Congress four years ago from Oklahoma City. To grow up as a good Congressman he listened, kept his mouth shut, studied hard, said nothing until he had something to say. What he said then usually made sense. This week earnest Mike Monroney stood up in Congress, brushed back his mop of hair, peered at his colleagues, and let them have...
...Remarkable Andrew (Paramount) is a refreshing fantasy. It brings back a posse of Founding Fathers and other once-vigorous Americans to mop up a pack of dishonest, flag-waving, 20th-century politicians...
...Japanese still had to mop up. In Sumatra, and other outlying Indies islands, they might have to wage a long and tough guerrilla campaign against unsubjected Dutchmen and hardy natives. But for all the purposes of war and conquest, the Japanese had Java. They had the Indies, their oil and rubber and tin, their "strategic island wall across the southwest Pacific. They had still to fight the battle of India and the battle of Australia. But they had won the battle of the Pacific...
Associated Press Correspondent Clark Lee witnessed the subsequent bloody mop-up of the squadron's remnants, was pleasantly amazed by the cool efficiency of U.S. scouting forces, had first-hand glimpses of the Japanese fighting man in action. Reporter Lee's story...