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Determined to avoid retail ceilings because of enforcement problems, Henderson had to proclaim the first one when Pearl Harbor started a buyer's panic for flashlights. Since then curtailment of civilian goods has forced more & more ceilings: on autos, tires, refrigerators, radios, 44 household electrical appliances banned by the War Production Board last week...
...great wartime solution, proposed occasionally for 20 years and passionately for two years by Baruch, was simply to proclaim at any random date that the price, wage and profit levels existing on that day constitute the final ceilings. Where these ceilings were unjust, adjustments would be made later. If such a level had been proclaimed two years ago, says Baruch, a billion arguments, frustrations, delays and inequities would have been saved the U.S.-not to mention billions of taxpayers' dollars in the rising costs of everything, from butter to guns...
This is no American Crusade, and we will never end it successfully if we continue to proclaim it so. We are fighting for the same ends as our allies; it may very nearly be said, for the same ends as our enemies, not to impose different ends. It will do us a lot more good to attach ourselves to these bigger ideals than to keep harping on our separatism. Unless we come to Europe with an understanding of the obstacles to her peace, unless we join with European liberals in overcoming these obstacles, we will never get any basis...
...blues could have been written and exploited with a good chance of titillating the public fancy. Anyway, it's now been done. The perpetrator is George Frazier '33, record reviewer for "Mademoiselle," who has just begun a daily column in the Boston Herald, and finds time also to proclaim his disapprobation of popular idols in the swing world once a month in "Downbeat" and "Music and Rhythm." With all this, and an occasional short story, not to forget a casual stab at the great American novel, his creative urge has not been satisfied, and George has once more bloomed forth...
Thomas J. Watson, president of I.B.M., took full-page advertisements in the press to proclaim: " 'I' represents only one person. 'We' may mean only two or a few persons. Our slogan now is WE-ALL. . . . President Roosevelt, our Commander in Chief, can be certain that WE-ALL are back...