Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President did not try to bolster the "great danger" warnings in the Steelman report. Among them: zooming living costs (see chart) and the resulting cut in real wages to the lowest point since early in the war; a drop of 8.5% in take-home pay since April 1945; inflationary pressures which could lead to "price collapse" and depression...
...essence, the Steelman report was a plea to businessmen, farmers and organized labor to go easy on price and wage increases. With the political heat turned on for junking Government controls, it was also a plea for retention of controls. Some of John Steelman's facts were open to dispute. He predicted that rising prices would create a wage-price spiral. Commented the New York Times: "[That] implies that it has been price rises that have been forcing wage rises. In the last year the causation has been the other way around. . . . The Administration . . . encouraged and sometimes compelled wage...
...hatful of recommendations for the General Assembly, which convenes on Oct. 23. Mostly they concerned such matters as world health, narcotics control, an International Refugees Organization. Russian intransigence blocked a U.S.-favored proposal for a central commission to coordinate Europe's economy; but a 450-page report was drafted on recovery in devastated areas. Russia blocked an attempted short-term solution of the Danube River problem. When the U.S. proposed a Vienna conference on the Danube question in November, Russia said that the Danube countries would boycott...
...disagreeable episode was only the first of several. Gruber's own party colleagues were annoyed with him for taking too much of the limelight in Paris. Parliamentary committees were mad at him for failure to report home before taking .Austria's first major foreign policy decision. When he faced Parliament last week, the delegates did not exactly spit on him, but it was a close-thing. Gruber managed to keep his job by the skin of his teeth...
...returning to Moscow I found in the Moscow News a Russian report of the same trip apparently intended to be helpful to English-language correspondents. 'One of my first observations of the Donbas' the report read 'was that the area's dense network of roads, which had been badly wrecked during the war, has been completely repaired...