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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Objections can certainly be made against planning based on the expectation of large-scale price increases. But experts can be found on both sides of this question, and one can hardly attack University officials for siding with one school of economists instead of another. The chief flaw in the College's reasoning lies not in this direction but in another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rooms for Rent | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

...R.A.F. pilot who was already under sentence for stealing 21 machine guns from a U.S. Government arsenal last April for use against Betancourt. Browder, the FBI said, organized last week's bombing mission, recruited the U.S. flyers and promised the pilots $30,000 apiece for the job. The question the FBI did not answer: Who financed Browder and paid for the planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Fizzled Blitz | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The question: Are We Losing Our Moral Standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Effect. The commodity break posed a big question. Was it the start of a healthy general shake-out of inflated prices, or the ominous warning of a recession? When grains broke in 1920 (see chart), other commodity prices sank with them and threw the whole economy into a temporary tailspin. Before last week's break, wholesale commodity prices (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) were within 3.5 points of their 1920 peak. The grain prices had gone far above their post World War I high. Though the break had come too fast for official tabulation to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Deluge | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...even get up mornings-much less lend a hand in supporting the family. After several reels of this sort of thing, everyone working on the picture evidently said the hell with it; for the show ends as abruptly as a chair pulled out from under. The most interesting question suggested by the whole venture: Is Hollywood trying to brace the public for another depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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