Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prices were already at an alltime high and still climbing. Unlike the OPA days, when the U.S. was just picking itself up after the Depression, the nation's economy was already bulging with inflationary pressures. Di Salle clamped on a general price freeze that was admittedly just a stopgap. But at least it was a beginning. 'The trouble around here," said Mike, is that everybody is so afraid of making a mistake that nobody gets anything done. We are bound to make some mistakes...
...White Book and the rhetoric were obviously designed to show the Western world that Yugoslavia is not crumbling, but is in need of help. Tito has already asked for 1) an immediate $30 million stopgap loan from the U.S. to keep Yugoslav factories running; 2) a long-term loan of $105 million to carry on his floundering five-year plan; 3) permission to buy war planes in the West. Washington and London let it be known last week that such permission will be granted...
...confusion and complaints were expected. Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston and their lieutenants, now equipped with powers which make them a government-within-the-Government, turned immediately to the job of converting the stopgap decrees into detailed, workable programs which would bring prices and wages into balance and keep them there...
...Tito controls the largest fighting force in Europe except the Soviet Union and . . . these forces constitute an important element in the defense of Western Europe against Soviet aggression." The President wanted Congress, when it reconvened Nov. 27, to approve emergency funds to feed the drought-stricken Yugoslavs. As a stopgap until Congress took up the matter, ECA had already diverted $11,500,000 worth of flour from its Italian and German stocks. The Export-Import Bank rushed off a quick $6,000,000 for drought relief out of the $55 million in U.S. credits already granted to Tito. The first...
...coach is not appointed March 6, Henry Lamar may conduct spring practice. Lamar, head freshman, coach, has assisted at spring practice in the past and would be able to fill in until the new coach took over. This would be a stopgap measure, however, for Lamar does not appear to be in the running for the head coaching...