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...same hot sun brought still graver trouble to U.S. powermen. TVA's reserves were so depleted that it had only a nine-week supply of water left. In Nashville, Tenn., in the midst of TVA's vast power development, the Vultee aircraft plant had to close down, suspend work on observation planes for the U.S. Army, dive bombers for Britain...
Gano Dunn's report did not even hazard a guess at steel needs for 1943 or later. It took the view that Britain (which had to suspend imports of finished steel for two months this spring for lack of ships) would continue to need only 381,000 tons per month from the U.S. It made no mention of another basic argument for greatly increased capacity: the progressive deterioration of older, overstrained mills...
...other boom periods, expansion of installment buying has helped push up the production curve. But following depressions have been deepened because consumers had past obligations to meet, thus had less current purchasing power. This time the Administration's goal is to suspend salary-hocking while the defense boom lasts, restore it to cushion the effect of the collapse which will follow...
...Near East. "At what line in the southeast Germany would suspend its influence is problematical. . . . Equal access to the oil wells of Iraq and Iran would be an inevitable demand...
...addition regular corporate income taxes were to be upped from 24% to 30% by a new surtax. Base of the excess-profits tax (which takes up to 50% of a corporation's remaining income) was broadened. The net effect of all these income taxes would be virtually to suspend the profit motive for the duration (see p. 77). And gift and estate taxes would be broadened and boosted...