Word: ceilinged
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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He demanded: "An overall ceiling across the entire economy, over all prices, wages, rents, fees and so on, with high enough taxes to prevent profiteering and to pay all defense costs, and an all-embracing, effective system of priorities."
Armed Services Chairmen Tydings (in the Senate) and Vinson (in the House) moved with even greater dispatch. Before the week was out they had slammed through their committees and presented to the Congress two major military bills: one to take the 2,006,000 ceiling off military manpower, the other...
Out of Reserves. The two faces resulted in some confusion: first the Administration said it would not call for reserves; next day it authorized the draft. Harry Truman announced that he had authorized the armed services to bring up their strength to a new (but undisclosed) ceiling. Under the Administration...
Many states-including New Hampshire-have a ceiling on death claims. In West Virginia, it is $10,000; in New Hampshire, $15,000; in Connecticut, $20,000. In states without ceilings, death claims of $50,000 or more are sometimes paid. The Warsaw Convention (1929) limits compensation for death in...
The blame lay squarely on the penny-pinching of Harry Truman and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. For more than a year they had ignored the urgings of the Truman-appointed Finletter Committee (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948) that the U.S. assemble a 70-group Air Force, buy some 5,200 planes...