Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The tight steel supply was given another squeeze last week. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer ordered 102,500 tons a month set aside for military orders under the voluntary allocation program. That made a total of 10% of U.S. steel production now allocated for priority industries.
Minority Prophet. "R.C." is against unions (the Hoiles papers are all open shop), majority rule ("The majority can't give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em...
The biggest news of the month was being made in Moscow last week, but what little news came out did not come from there. It was not for lack of trying. The press was not bound by any voluntary censorship, and it was ready & anxious to print any news it...
With both hands firmly clenched around a newly fashioned club, President Truman assured the jittery steel industry last week that there was no need to duck-yet. He "did not consider it appropriate" to invoke the drastic powers to control steel which the Republican Congress had unwittingly given him in...
His reasons were plain. The defense program needed only about 2% of anticipated steel production this fiscal year, and will need less than 3% in the following. For the sake of efficiency, the President assigned the job of filling such relatively small needs to the Department of Commerce, which is...