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...sooner was that news out than ESA fired off a telegram to 250 large manufacturers in every major industry: Would they please notify ESA at least seven days in advance of any planned price increase...
...Republican majority in Congress had made its position clear. But not all Republicans applauded. The Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun, long a trenchant critic of Acheson's Asiatic policy, objected: "The Republican caucuses give the impression that our country is divided. As a matter of fact, on matters important, our country is united. Our country is more important than the Administration's face, or Mr. Acheson's face, or the Republican Party's face . . . We're dealing now in terms of blood & iron...
...John McClain's not bothering "to check his sources" [TIME, Nov. 20]: TIME might catch up on its own sources-McClain is a New York Journal-American columnist, not a "New York World-Telegram and Sun columnist...
Stabilizer Valentine, apparently outraged, got off a telegram to both: "You are requested to suspend all price increases on automobiles announced by you during the week until the entire question of price can be examined and determined by this agency...
...already committed thousands of cars to dealers at the new prices, and placed orders for supplies at higher prices. Furthermore, said Wilson, the price of G.M.'s materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in rubber. Said he: only a day before Valentine's telegram went out, the Government itself had "raised the price of synthetic rubber, the production and distribution of which it completely controls . . . by 12% on one grade and 32% on another." (The Government's reason: higher raw material costs...