Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed, is to keep purchasing power up. The President said, significantly, that this should be done only rarely by raising wages, mostly by cutting prices. He set no precise figure for maximum employment, hoped to maintain the current peak of 58 million. Then, with the nation's productive plant going full blast, the U.S. national output should top 1946's $194 billion...
Most importantly, perhaps, the proclamation ended the President's power to seize private property under the Smith-Connally act. Termination of the act means that the Government can no longer take over a strike-bound plant as a means of settling a labor dispute. And six months hence, the Government must get out of any private industry it is now operating: e.g., the soft coal mines and the Great Lakes tugs...
...great powers only the United States emerged from the war with its industrial plant not only uncrippled but expanded. The quickest and easiest way for other countries to replace their destroyed equipment is to make purchases in the United States. But it is an elementary principle of international trade that a nation must sell goods in order to be able to buy them. If American markets are closed to foreign countries, they will have no recourse but to withdraw into economic isolation, adopt a system of strict controls, and wage a cutthroat fight to control certain export markets. The frictions...
...love living here," Mrs. Mary Ann Round commented yesterday, as she maneuvered her daughter away from the electric heater that constituted the bed- room heating plant. "Everything's pretty well organized now," her business school husband George offered, "but on really cold days we've had to close off the living room and one bed-room and put rugs under all the doors...
...orders for 350 of his new two-engine transports (2023 and 3033). The prototype of the 202 was already test-flying. If it turned out well, then Martin had plenty to do. His orders totaled $201 million. Martin was also planning to open a new $3,500,000 plastics plant soon. Said Martin happily: "1947 will be the busiest peacetime year in our history...