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Sharp Cuts. This week the Administration planned to slap on new credit controls designed to trim the rate of new housing starts from the current 1,400,000 a year to 800,000. That alone would free about $3 billion worth of materials and thousands of workers. In fact, builders already had cut back so sharply that some of them were warning that existing controls will carry "deflation" in building too far (see Housing...
...itself submitted an item for inclusion in the Assembly's agenda called "The Question of Formosa," announced that it would invite the General Assembly to consider and settle "the future of Formosa" and of its nearly 8,000,000 inhabitants. The move was an unmistakable slap at the Nationalists (see box), gave aid & comfort to the Chinese Reds in their effort to get into...
...Congress adjourned after passing the $4.5 billion emergency tax bill, it made a solemn promise to itself: as soon as it comes back after the November elections, it would slap a retroactive excess profits tax on U.S. business to "take the profits...
...after-section are eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs it on the flight cleans it after landing. This makes...
...broad orders-one to limit the building-up of inventories, the other a general priority edict directing manufacturers to fill military orders ahead of others. But few thought that such voluntary controls would work as the arms program picked up speed. And then, when every Cabinet member began to slap on his own pet controls, the U.S. might indeed find itself in an "impossible mess...