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...more-and unexpected-cuts soon. Word got out that he plans to cut auto output from 1,000,000 cars in the first quarter of 1952 to 800,000 cars in the second. Furthermore, Fleischmann would give automakers only enough copper for 640,000 cars. If the new slash goes through, said the automen, unemployment in the industry would double. Said G.M.'s "Engine Charlie" Wilson: "It would amount to a political, economic and social crime...
...weeks ago, Premier René Pleven proclaimed austerity for France, and a Slash in imports of U.S. coal, ore and raw materials, in an effort to brake the run. But devaluation rumors had French capital badly scared...
...does not mean that they could abolish controls overnight. The coal, railroad and road transport industries will not be denationalized. But they will be decentralized, state control will be made remoter, and management transferred as far as possible from Whitehall. The free national health service will certainly take a slash...
...Veterans Administration personnel came after Congress approved an Appropriations Bill which cut ten percent from the money granted to each department. The Boston office was requested to slash half of its staff working on veteran applications...
...drop in steel production, why had NPA estimated that steelmen will produce 400,000 tons more steel in the first quarter of 1952 than in this year's last quarter? Furthermore, how did Wilson expect to get more steel next year when he had permitted DPA to slash the steel industry's allotment of metal for expansion only a fortnight ago? What, wondered steelmen, had got into Charlie Wilson...