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...nub of the problem, said Mr. Voorhees, is: How can costs and profits be covered when some costs, such as wages, have been arbitrarily shoved up without the increased production necessary to cover them? "A portion of the public," said he, "has been made to believe that wages in large industry can be advanced without limit and without effect on price...
Then came the political action-mostly internecine. The nub of the controversy was obscure, but suddenly C.C.P.A.C. was split in splinters. Cried Dr. Pope: "All Communists in this organization should resign." Then he pointed a finger: he demanded that Mrs. Brubaker get out for "insubordination." She refused, and Dr. Pope asked the steering committee to censure her. Instead, it dismissed Dr. Pope. Miss Holman resigned in protest, Mrs. Brubaker in the interests of harmony. Then other right-wingers among the left-wingers let it be known that they, too, were much too busy...
...State Department reluctantly laid down a policy last week for U.S. airlines operating in ex-enemy nations. The policy, over which State has hemmed & hawed for weeks, was forced out by the squabble between Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and the British Government. Nub of the dispute: control of Italy's internal airlines...
...terrible-tempered star performer was in top form, churlishly contemptuous of questioners and questions. Lean, sarcastic Senator Millard Tydings put oldster Ickes in the witness chair for cross-examination of his testimony about the nub of the Pauley case: the "rawest proposition" which Harold Ickes said Democratic National Treasurer Ed Pauley had made to him about tidelands oil and campaign contributions (TIME...
Most of Star of the Unborn is a travelogue through the future. Its chief action involves a halfhearted love affair between F. W. and an Astromental girl and the final fierce clash between the retrogrades and the Astromentalists. The nub of Author Werfel's posthumous philosophy lies in his quotation from Valentinus the Gnostic: "There are two fundamental species of angels. The ones helped man from the beginning to make the earth habitable. The others prevented him from doing it. Mankind is still far too immature to be told which of these angels are the good ones and which...