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...exasperated by Aly Maher's slowcoach approach to the key issue of the whole cleanup movement: land reform. Instead of getting started on the breakup of large estates, Maher's Cabinet had hemmed & hawed, appointed one committee after another to "study" the question. Prices were still skyhigh, favoritism was still common in government promotion lists, and Wafdist politicians plotted to overthrow the new regime...
...dodge: meat packers are allowed a certain shrinkage in cooling their meat, but it is a simple matter to claim more shrinkage than actually occurs. It is just as simple to rejuggle the books to bring purchase prices down with little risk of being caught. For with retail prices skyhigh, black marketeers can buy their beef above OPS ceilings, sell it at legal prices and still show a profit...
...Mike Di Salle thinks his new rule will give the honest grocer a squarer deal. Before the Jan. 26 order, many sharpshooters boosted their prices skyhigh, were rewarded when the order froze the prices at that level. By freezing markups instead of prices, OPS hopes to give everyone the same fair chance to make a profit. But there is no hope that food prices will be kept down if farm prices continue to rise. The grocer will simply pass any increased costs to the consumer...
...Anglo-Iranian's profits, would never settle for less than a 50-50 split. In addition, Anglo-Iranian and the five other owners of the Iraq Petroleum Co. had just about completed long negotiations with Iraq on a new contract. Now that deal, too, seemed certain to blow skyhigh...
...Communist enemy in Korea was still attacking, but his attacks no longer had the fearsome power he had put into his drives three weeks before. The tides of war were setting against him. The Allies were steadily getting more manpower, weapons, supplies, mobility; Allied morale was skyhigh; Communists were beginning to surrender in situations where they could easily have got back to their own units. The enemy even seemed, as one observer said, to be running out of plans...