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...Stiffer penalties for narcotics violators ("no penalty is too severe for a criminal of such character...
Under able Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, employment is up, luxury taxes are stiffer. As economic inequality tends to diminish, a feeling of opportunity grows. On the streets, fewer Germans glare enviously at expensive automobiles; cheap Volkswagens, Opels and Fords are nearer the public's reach. Already, more Germans own cars than in 1936. In Bad Godesberg, a German mason carped at the new apartment houses for U.S. officials: "I wish we were that well off." Promptly two of his colleagues chipped in: "Don't worry. We will...
...parity proposal was part of a message to Congress, a month overdue, calling for amendments to the Defense Production Act, which expires June 30. In some of its other proposals, the message was stronger. The President asked 1) power to revoke the licenses of all price violators, 2) stiffer rent controls, including the power to control business rents (the first time a President has made such a request), 3) authority to buy critical materials, and 4) the right to pay subsidies to producers of essential goods when their production is hurt by price ceilings...
...stock market kept right on going up-despite the news from Korea and the certainty of stiffer controls on business. Last week, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose more than four points to 259.08, a new bull-market peak...
Honors requirements are a bit stiffer, and a general final examination is required. On the credit side is the fact that the honors essay is limited to 10,000 words in length...