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...ease of bringing off these limited coups has apparently blinded the Committee members to the bigger facts. Russia, for instance, is now completely free to press the propaganda activity which so recently ran many Congressmen's benzedrine bill sky-high and made them back the projected 400-million dollar "diplomatic offensive." The Committee's implied faith that the 27 nations hitherto reached by the broadcasts and booklets of the OIC will continue to believe in America's aims through a process of visceral induction is one that the Soviet propagandists will greet with bulging squeals of delight...
...prices down, at least one Government arm seemed to be doing what it could to keep them up. The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill to extend price supports on domestic wool for two more years, in effect pegging the price at last year's sky-high level of about 41.6? a lb., some 32% higher than world prices. By virtue of the present floor under wool, which has kept U.S. prices above world wool prices, the Government is now stuck with 480,000,000 lbs., more than a normal year's supply...
...filled with sound and fury against sky-high prices last week. President Truman told businessmen that they should cut prices or another round of wage boosts was inevitable. Businessmen did not have to be told that. They were all busy telling each other the same thing...
...board of directors of Diana Stores Corp. last week got an unusual shock. Diana's president, Harry Greenburg, turned down a bonus of $450,000. And he did not do it because of sky-high taxes...
...star. Earnest, hard-working Brigadier General K. C. Dennis, who commands the 5th U.S. Bombardment Division, is worried about a new super-secret jet plane which the Nazis are about to put into production. He knows where its factories are hidden, also that his 6-175 could blast them sky-high were they given a chance. But the factories are deep inside Germany, far beyond fighter-escort range. To bomb them out will be near murder for the bombers, both going and coming...