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...Draft deferments should be made on the basis of occupation rather than on family status. To draft war workers with irreplaceable skills while "leaving untouched millions of fathers not engaged in war work" would retard war production...
...ceiling impends). This program is based on four principles: 1) railroads, bus companies, steamship lines and other common carriers must not be allowed to operate airlines (CAB thinks the spirit of the act which created it is opposed to their doing so, on grounds that they would retard aviation's progress because their primary interest has been non-aeronautic); 2) existing and future airlines must not be allowed to monopolize domestic or foreign routes; 3) the less government subsidy of airlines, the better; 4) low passenger fares and freight rates...
...betide high-rate mortgage holders, owners of real estate who want to conserve equities, municipalities which retard progress with high taxes and antiquated building codes! Celotex's Dahlberg is prepared to crush them with the cry: "Your rights cannot override the rights of the people!" If cities won't tear down buildings, replan streets, extend their limits, or if whole municipalities won't merge: "We must move to other fields and abandon such cities to their fate...
...planning to pour some $10 million into new Brazilian electrical manufacturing plants. But I.G.E.'s president, able, 64-year-old Clark Haynes Minor, who knows the world as well as many a U.S. businessman knows his own country, claims that the new plants will expand, not retard, I.G.E.'s flow of exports from the U.S. to Brazil...
...news was under a bushel and was carefully kept there. The chemists talked learnedly, wordily, nebulously about synthetic rubber. Significantly, one scheduled paper on synthetic rubber was called off at the last moment. Nobody talked at all about such important new developments in gasoline as the chemicals which retard the deterioration of leaded aviation fuels in storage, or new ingredients in 100-octane gas. Many chemists were simply too busy to attend...