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...industrious (though by act of Congress they are bureaucratic workers), hatched a Government crisis. Despite all the Agriculture Department could do to curb them, hens have laid 270 million dozen more eggs than in the same period last year. The nation will not buy enough eggs at the current high prices, so-under the mad terms of a foolish farm law-the Government has to buy the leftovers, dry them and stuff them into caves and warehouses, with all the powdered eggs left over from other years...
Albert Mayer, a New York architect, will discuss defense aspects of new towns and current proposals for decentralization of Washington...
...captain's heirs of using the holding companies to set up a "milking system" to pay themselves fat salaries while the line was drained of its assets. In addition, the line owed the Government $7,500,000, and $2,000,000 to other creditors. Its net current liabilities exceeded assets...
There is nothing new about the current cry for austerity and controls, said Johnson. When World War II began, he recalled, the economic crepehangers advocated cutting civilian goods and services back from the 1940 level of $72 billion to the $56 billion of the worst depression year. But what actually happened was that the U.S. stepped up its production enough to produce $100 billion of war goods and services in 1944 plus $112 billion for civilian consumption. After that, the U.S. standard of living rose steadily...
...billion has been spent expanding industrial plants, about 175% more than was spent on such expansion during the war. The U.S. now has a labor force of about 65,000,000, some 9,000,000 greater than during the war. By 1955, when the population, at its current rate of increase, will reach 162,000,000, Johnson believes the U.S. should be able to reach a gross national production of $350 billion (v. $270 billion now). This would provide a $245 billion market for consumer goods, double prewar and one-third greater than...