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...this added up to a case for the proposition that the Washington experts might have done better had they concentrated price fixing and rationing on a few basic necessities, typically food, while allowing luxuries to find their own price in the market. Against such a policy the OPA argues that it is extremely difficult to distinguish between necessities and luxuries, and secondly that if luxuries rise in price, manufacturers will switch into making them rather than necessities. But OPA tends to gloss over the fact that higher prices also reduce the demand for goods...
Whether Economan Byrnes will actually have to get laws changed to hold down the price of wheat and other farm products remains to be seen. Meanwhile, in the case of another basic commodity-milk-the Government has conceded higher prices to the farmer and chosen a more tortuous course. The course: pay milk distributors a direct subsidy so that retail prices can be kept down. In New York City alone the subsidy already amounts to about $15,000 a day-and it will have to be doubled this month if it is to keep pace with the latest jump...
...fighting off United Nations' broadcasts with strange and unpleasant noises. When World War II began, Nazi jamming was unpredictable. Today Germany, Italy and Japan all jam regularly, systematically, most of the time.* In spite of their efforts, their jamming is far from 100% effective. The jammer's basic difficulty is that a determined listener can follow a speaker's voice through almost any kind of a din, can grasp the gist of a message even though he hears only a word here & there...
Medical charlatans have existed since the beginning of history and doubtless will always exist; even Hippocrates had his contention with the school at Cnidus. There is nothing unique about a man's being able to perform major surgery without basic training in anatomy, physiology and pathology. As a Navy Hospital Corpsman, I assisted at surgery and could have done a neat appendectomy many years before I was licensed as a physician...
...nation's ablest high-school graduates the members of an Enlisted Training Corps, limited by military quotas. Each enlistee, put into uniform and provided with base pay and a living allowance, would choose his own college, there get four semesters (about a year and a half) of basic officer training under R.O.T.C. or college teachers. After that, picked men would stay in college for advanced professional or technical training, the rest would go directly into the armed forces...