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...imprisoned by the state. Jackson reputedly said, "Well, [Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." That ruling, however, did not specifically require Jackson to take any action. Other Presidents have bowed to decisions they considered wholly wrong. When Harry Truman's seizure of strikebound steel mills during the Korean War was declared unconstitutional, he yielded to the Supreme Court ruling. "I have no ambition," he said, "to be a dictator...
...like game called Ec-oplany. In it, players assume the role of finance ministers and try to outwit each other at running a national economy. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time...
...wait for the promised elections, they demanded satisfaction of other grievances immediately. So did the mobs in the streets: in East Pakistan, two weeks of vigilante murders, mostly of lower officials in the Ayub regime, cost more than 200 lives, and in the West hundreds of factories were strikebound by workers demanding better wages...
...Great Lakes, 71 ocean-going ships were stranded behind strikebound locks, able to load or unload cargoes as far inland as Chicago but unable to return to sea. Another 72 vessels were stalled at the Montreal end of the 2,342-mile waterway, and dozens more clogged smaller ports as far away as Trois Riveres, 80 miles downstream. Canadian railroads stopped wheat shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that...
...short months ago is fast gathering ominous substance. Automakers have joined the parade of summer price increases that now reach across the economy from food to steel, from appliances to plastics. General Motors raised the average price of its 1968 autos by $110, or 3.6% above the 1967 level. Strikebound Ford lifted its car prices by $114 (3.9%), Chrysler by $133 (4.6%). Inventory liquidation by businessmen, one of the principal drags on the economy this year, is dwindling, and housing and industrial production are up. "A business acceleration is no longer a forecast," said Chairman Gardner Ackley of the White...