Word: stopgaps
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...EURJ All the regular appropriation bills. Stopgap spending authority, under which the Government has been operating since June 30, will expire next week...
...wolf, Manly Fleischmann, boss of the National Production Authority, last week trotted out his Controlled Materials Plan. Its howl seemed to be worse than its bite. Starting July 1, CMP will tightly control all steel, copper and aluminum in defense production, thus put an end to the tangle of stopgap priorities NPA has used up to now. But civilian producers will be untouched by CMP under the present plan. They will be left to scramble for the metals that are left over, but whether the metals will be the bulk-or only a small part-of the supply is still...
Harris charged that political pressure has made the Federal Reserve System unworkable as a credit stopgap, and suggested instead that a compulsory savings program be added to the income...
...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...