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Although he had fervently urged that 6,000,000 tons of bituminous coal be sent to Europe to avoid "rioting, bloodshed, and the destruction of nearly all semblance of orderly government," Harold Ickes glumly announced that the U.S. would be in a bad jam if not even a pound were sent abroad...
...Board to regard all wages below 65? (instead of 55?, as at present) as substandard. And two days later, 70 House members had signed a petition asking President Truman to revise the battered Little Steel formula, permit a boost of at least 20% in the basic pay rate "to avoid sowing the seeds of a disastrous depression...
...Always known as Sir Bernard, to avoid confusion with older cousin Rear Admiral Henry Clive Rawlings, recently in service as a convoy commodore...
...they also proposed to avoid the pitfalls of World War I reparations policy: the demands for huge payments in finished goods, the building up of German industry to supply the goods, and a flood of foreign loans to finance the whole thing. In the end, Germany got more out of it than the victors...
...Mother Hubbard. OPA magnanimously dropped rationing of about 6,000 new 1942 cars still in the nation's stock pile, scarcely enough to meet one day's prewar demand. Many dealers, to avoid argument, simply went right on selling cars only to holders of top priorities. OPA also announced that, when the new cars roll off production lines, they will be rationed at first to the same eight classes of essential drivers who previously got stockpile cars...