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...with the committee fortnight ago, the job of talking the bill through Congress looked easy. His thesis that the nation was "on the brink of inflation" could be substantiated by simple charts: wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities were up 50% since the beginning of the war; from the pre-war level food costs were up 13%, house furnishings 4.7%, clothing 3%. Without the price bill, the U.S. would repeat its experience of World War I, when (according to a Baruch estimate) inflation increased the Government's cost of war by $15,000,000,000, led to the disastrous...
Taxes were most obviously to blame-chiefly the excess-profits tax, which feeds on the aircraft industry's low pre-war profits and small capitalization...
...Edmund Hall, Oxford, where in pre-war days flanneled undergraduates lolled on the lawn of the quadrangle around an ancient well, there was an unprecedented gathering last week of the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Wales, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the diocesan bishops of England, Wales, Scotland. Save for the decennial worldwide Lambeth Conference, Britain's episcopate had never before gathered in one conference. But as Malvern showed, the Church of England has lost its smugness. The bishops last week soberly admitted that the church has drifted away from the people, that it is largely...
...short, India, where the pre-war average male wage was less than $30 a year, is enjoying a war boom, and the sight of an untouchable smoking a big cigar and wearing a silk shirt is perhaps no dream of the far future...
Blind Men's Bluff? The pursuit groups at Mitchel Field have three pre-war jobs: 1) to break in new pilots on the P-40s; 2) to learn combat flying as it is actually done in World War II; 3) to man new groups as fast as they can be formed, for service in other defense zones and at U.S. bases...