Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under farm prices, yet Franklin Roosevelt still retained the authority of the price control bill to use any money he can dig up for food subsidies. Hurriedly, the House farm bloc got up a simple resolution merely extending CCC. The Senate, not in such a hurry, began again to tack on anti-subsidy amendments. And many a Congressman, convinced that subsidies would not work, smiled-and waited...
...opposition within the Republican ranks, statements of prominent leaders give grounds for the fear that the issue is being fought in terms of party aggrandizement rather than of national welfare. Minnesotan Floor Leader Knutson characterizes the trade pacts as "a succession of dismal failures." Going off on a different tack, he implies that the fundamental question is one involving the power ratio of Congress in relation to foreign policy. Vestiges of isolationist complacency are refurbished by H. Fish's statement that "the reciprocal trade agreements have no more to do with peace than cheese has to do with chalk...
Knox knew it was time to reef. In a carefully worded statement issued by the Navy, he gulped his previous words, took a new tack: "There is no great difference in the Navy and the committee figures for 1942, the net loss in gross tons being in the neighborhood of something over a million tons...
...Administration mustered all its Congressional forces to hold tight against the farm bloc's Pace Bill, which would tack farm-labor costs to agricultural prices, or of the Bankhead Bill (already vetoed by the President, but still resur-rectible), which would raise parity prices by pretending that Government benefit payments are not really farm income...
Inflation Inflated. The committee tried another tack. Would the witness admit that wage increases were inflationary? With majestic patience, he would not. On the contrary, the greatest danger to price controls was the Government's "excessive rewards to industry for producing war commodities...