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...apparent that something akin to the corn-hog ratio extends through our whole economic life, and that when we talk prices we are really talking exchange values. Thus, although a ton of steel is selling at its highest peacetime price in two decades, it is exchanging for the smallest quantity of goods and services...
...period of eight months in 1943, he harried the nation with coal strikes, split the Administration, humiliated Franklin Roosevelt, and virtually wrecked the War Labor Board, as he had wrecked the Mediation Board. In return for only the smallest of gains he brought down upon his head once more the wrath of Congress. It was a blunder. More than any other man, John Lewis was responsible for the Smith-Connally Act, the boomerang labor law which Congress passed in an effort to curb...
This year's figure, nevertheless, marks the largest June graduation since 368 A.B.s and S.B.s were given in 1943, and far exceeds last year's 93 as well as 92 of the year before, the smallest number since...
...only talkative contestant in the race to produce a cheaper car was James D. Mooney, bouncing, bustling president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. His plans: a six-cylinder model weighing only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...
...back to 1939 instead of going ahead to 1950," have done little to improve methods used before the war, when the U.S., with only twice as many workers, turned out 15 times as many cars. Compared with more powerful, lower-priced U.S. models, said Member Shawcross, the smallest current British model is "a joke, a glorified, expensive...