Word: till
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With aluminum from these plants, Kaiser plans to build bodies for K-F's Kaiser and probably for Graham-Paige's Frazer. Reason: up till last week K-F had no steel. All it had was promises. Graham-Paige was sure of some steel, but not enough both to permit Graham to get into auto production in Willow Run, now estimated for the end of April, and for K-F to build up a backlog of parts it needs for Kaiser production, now fixed for midsummer...
...Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...
...cotton cost only 5? a pound. But in 13 years the South's cotton patriots, like Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead, have pumped up the price by loan, subsidy and parity program till it has no relation to demand. Now the South is belatedly discovering that high-priced cotton is something people can do without...
Friendly Enemies. Furthermore, the war has eliminated many a prewar market-e.g., Brazil, which once imported cotton, was forced to increase its planting till it is now an exporter. Other onetime customers of the U.S. may not buy either, because they: 1) cannot buy without U.S. loans; 2) would rather buy in non-U.S. markets, thus save what dollars they have; 3) would rather use rayon made from their own forests...
...view of Westinghouse's three-weeks-old strike of 83% of its 90,000 employes, Price was bearish on production. Said he: the shiny new washers, irons, home freezers, etc. will not be on the market in volume till late summer or early fall...