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...This is the simplest way," he said. "Industry must accept the principle that it cannot earn excess profits during war-time. The only alternative is for the government to let it take all the profits it can and this Congress and popular pressure will not allow...
...figure represents an all-time high for war spending. In its simplest terms it means that with every tick of the clock the United States is feeding the war march $2473--more than the average war earner makes in an entire year...
Trouble is that the businessman is yet to be found who is able to get anything done by dealing with one Government agency. Frequent frantic trips are usually necessary to get the O.K. of a dozen or more agencies and commissions for the simplest of transactions. Only bureaucratic control of travel rationing will stop it. Best bet: it won't be bureaucratic control...
...simplest device of all consists only of a beer can filled with absorbent material and a clothespin to clamp on the nose. It is approved by no one except its inventor, Chemist Vernon Bowers of Baltimore, Ohio...
Thus wages are the simplest and almost the only practicable way of solving the copper crisis now. If copper wages are raised much OPA will have to do some new figuring on copper prices, for at 12? a Ib. the big companies are already producing some 30% of their copper at a loss (on the OPA theory that they can afford to average the loss out against their lower cost output). Even a 10?-an-hour raise would cost $7,000,000 a year-small pickings compared with the $250,000,000 the Government is paying for domestic copper...