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...Henderson's ability to lick inflation by this piecemeal method has nothing to do with his partial power over prices. For Henderson is also the administrator of civilian supply, with complete power over rationing. Without a Gestapo no price ceiling is effective on scarce materials whose supply is uncontrolled; and when the supply is controlled-i.e., rationed-the price ceiling enforces itself. Thereafter, as both Britain and Canada know, control of inflation is a Treasury matter: more taxes, more savings...
Consequently, a welder's memberships would read like a partial roster of A.F. of L. craft unions: the Boilermakers, the Carpenters (to work on steel window frames), the Sheet Metal Workers, the Plumbers, the Sawmill Workers, the Machinists. For each new membership he had to fork out an initiation fee, until his pockets bulged with union cards but his pocketbook was flat...
...partial exile to which I am subjected," said he, "I strive to do all my duty. Each day I endeavor to wrest this country from the stagnation that threatens it. ... Help me!" Remarking that the new French Constitution was almost ready, he added: "But that document can only be dated from Paris and promulgated only on the moral of the liberation of national territory...
Long-Range Planning. "The experience now being gained in the partial subordination of finance to war production, and the present experimental methods of financing public expenditure with a minimum of interest charges, should be extended to the post-war program of House Building and the necessary development of Agriculture and whatever other industries may be necessary to a balanced economy...
Turkey. To pious, fatalistic President Ismet Inönü of Turkey, the U.S. entry into war has brought added unease. Having repeated that Turkey was neutral, partially deaf Ismet Inönü expediently turned his bad ear to German protests that his acceptance of Lend-Lease aid was unneutral. But he could hear clearly enough reports from Turkey's Bulgarian border that Germany was increasing her gasoline stocks and working feverishly on air bases in Bulgaria. Turkey awaited her Kismet (fate) and wondered about rumors that Chief of Staff General Fevzi Cakmak was partial to the Axis...