Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Invitation to Inflation. Said Baruch: "Experience has taught us that when the Government steps into the market with such enormous demands requiring such quick priority, you must control all prices, including wages, rents, foods and other costs, eliminate profiteering and ration certain scarce essentials...
...only was the Truman program inadequate; it was dangerous, Baruch maintained. "Should this bill be enacted, without price control," he warned, "the Government may get what it wants, but with needless delay and ever-increasing prices. The public will be left to compete for the remainder-with the fattest pocketbook, not the greatest need, deciding who gets what is available. This bill, gentlemen, is an invitation to inflation...
...Holland, Mich, offered a chlorophyll preparation over the counter, without prescription, under the trade name of "Nullo." Each bottle ($1.25) contained 30 Paddy-green tablets (a month's supply). Nullo, the label emphasized, "does not stop perspiration." But, claimed the makers, it "is effective in the control of . . . perspiration odors of the underarms and feet; odors associated with menstruation ; and odors that may be the result of faulty metabolism. Nullo, allowed to dissolve on the tongue, quickly neutralizes localized mouth odors...
...chambers, in which jet engines will roar full blast in a gas-swirled inferno, were reminded of a classic Pratt & Whitney story. A wartime visitor to the plant, watching blue flames flickering from an engine's exhaust, remarked brightly: "Actually, you people simply are trying to contain and control fire, aren't you?" Replied a Pratt & Whitney veteran: "Yes, and that's simply all the devil has to do in hell, too, as I understand...
Should such a conference fail, Zacharias offers a list of suggestions which are either pretty obvious or pretty sure to precipitate the hot war he doesn't want, e.g., abrogation of the U.S. peace treaties with satellite Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, and establishment of U.S. military control over them if they didn't behave...