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This nationwide bonanza would begin July 1, 1945. It would be a permanent addition to Canada's social-security program. The new payments, called family allowances, would probably be made by check, to parents and guardians. Basic monthly allowances: $5 for every child of five and under; $6 for every child of six to ten; $7 for those of ten to 13; $8 for 13-to-16-year-olds...
Money from Heaven. Lest the Government be accused of directly subsidizing procreation, there were limits. Families with more than four children would get a little less than the basic allowances. Benefits for the fifth child would be $1 less than the basic allowance, $2 less for the sixth and seventh children, $3 less for the eighth and all the rest. But a paragon who had sired 15 children in 16 years would still be able to draw $816 a year from the treasury. By July 1, 1946 the Dionnes would draw $420 for the quintuplets alone...
...support floor prices. If the agency quit, egg prices would sag to 15 or 20 cents, putting many a hennery out of business. Then, during the normal winter slump, prices might rocket to $1.50 or $2. WFA's job is to maintain the farmer's basic average price of 30?. To do this it had to buy up 5,000,000 cases of eggs between January and June of this year, as against a mere 31,000 cases for the same period...
...ready for the hearings. To save time, CAB will group hearings according to routes-e.g., if ten airlines have applied for the New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon-London route, a joint hearing will be held for all. Sidetracking inevitable catfights, CAB will grant franchises on two basic points: 1) the "fitness, willingness and ability" of the applicant; 2) whether the traffic can bear the operation of more than one line to a route. Established domestic carriers will have good talking points in their war experience-all the big ones and many of the smaller have reaped much experience flying...
Postwar Problems cannot be solved by "passing resolutions in favor of free enterprise." Government help will be needed, to start useful public works in depressions, and to curb monopolies. "But our basic answer to the problems of a demobilization economy . . . lies in our great productive ability. . . . Capital is necessary-risk capital that is ready to take a chance on the future. . . . There should be a drastic revision of the tax laws to encourage risk capital...