Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high dudgeon, OPA Boss Chester Bowles last week got after the clothing industry. He charged that manufacturers are deliberately making the clothing shortage worse, that they are holding back on shipments till after Jan. 1, to take advantage of the repeal of the excess-profits tax. Said Bowles: "The public's need for clothes seems to mean little to some producers...
...Fortunately . . . there is room in the existing price structure for business as a whole to grant increases in wage rates"-thanks to such factors as industry's increased productivity and repeal of the excess-profits...
...Congress also repealed the use tax on automobiles and boats, which cost the public $140,000,000 a year in wartime. Left for future bills were repeal of the high excise taxes on liquor, jewelry, furs...
Last week the House Military Affairs Committee started hearings on a bill to repeal the law, heard testimony that by now the National Labor Relations Board had time for nothing except presiding over the strike votes required by the law, that the board could not possibly keep up with new disputes. Strike elections at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler will cost NLRB $100,000 and inestimable time, although their results are foregone conclusions. In the first two weeks of October, 3,900 other requests for strike elections were filed...
Sponsor of the repeal bill was Virginia's Howard Smith, who was only too happy to have his name on the law when it still looked like a deadfall for labor. Smith and Co-author Tom Connally each seemed to contend that the law's mistakes had been drawn up by the other-or perhaps even by two other fellows...