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...nub of the booklet is a catechism of preparedness which the board wants every manufacturer to answer, at least to his own satisfaction. It covers everything from contract negotiations to plans for the "emergency housing for the new workers you'll need." Sample questions: "What measures could you take to protect your personnel during work hours in an air attack? What provisions have been made to detect the existence of subversive elements on your payroll...
This week Bernard Baruch gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. the benefit of an old man's experience and advice. As usual, it was so commonsensible it sounded daring. The nub of it (with familiar Baruch bells on): the time has come to quit horsing around and get to work...
...when the meetings got down to the brass tacks of Professor Chafee's draft of an agenda, Expert Lomakin did not go along. On the nub of press freedom-elimination of peacetime censorship-Consul Lomakin was adamant. He proposed that the coming conference (in a European city to be selected later) be specifically prevented from considering such a step. He argued that censorship was exercised normally only against newsmen who were not acting in good faith and whose reports were designed to create misunderstanding and friction between nations. "Naturally," said Lomakin, "no Government can stand for that...
What would decontrol do in the nation's most pressing shortage and biggest black market-housing? It would probably be impossible to maintain the $10,000 sales price ceiling on new houses-the nub of Wilson Wyatt's program for veterans' housing. Instead, the Housing Authority's emphasis might be put on incentives to construct low-rental units...
That was the nub of Jimmy Byrnes's speech, and he said it so that no one could misunderstand: "We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world. ... I want no misunderstanding. We will not shirk our duty. We are not withdrawing. As long as an occupation force is required in Germany the Army of the United States will be a part of that occupation force...