Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington took startled note last week: a speech by Harry Truman had been well received. At the annual banquet of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the President had droned through a prepared address renewing his plea for the enactment of price controls. Then, when the radio microphones had been switched off, he tossed aside his papers and launched into an off-the-record talk "for background...
...wage boost and price rise in steel in February 1946 took the last brakes off the postwar spiral of inflation. Last week, out of a clear sky with an apparently unlimited ceiling, U.S. Steel flatly rejected another round of wage demands-the third since 1946-and proclaimed instead a price cut (see BUSINESS...
Those were Pollster Gallup's latest contributions to his bulging card index of U.S. opinions, beliefs, customs and morals. How much did his findings have to do with the price of eggs? That was another question. In the election year of 1948, what most U.S. citizens were watching eagerly were the computations on Pollster Gallup's political slide rule...
...embargo, two years ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup Poll preferences, the U.S. would now have universal military training, price control, rationing, direct election of the President and a 49th state (Hawaii...
...home. More specifically, its belief is in enough government control of industry to forestall boom and bust cycles in economy. HLU has implemented these beliefs by campaigning against the Taft-Hartley act last spring, working in recent elections, (usually for Democratic candidates) and bucking for the return of price control...