Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...would pay U.S. suppliers no more than 25% higher prices than those paid to foreign producers. The board will take off price restrictions on a few badly needed materials, will try to avoid a blanket increase. With the new high prices, the board hopes to persuade U.S. miners to develop low-grade deposits of such metals as manganese, copper and zinc, thus speed up its lagging stockpiling program...
...even this tremendous sum was based on a gamble that total war was still some distance off. "If we propose to prepare for a major war which might possibly develop within two years," said Texas' sober, veteran Congressman Mahon, then the U.S. would have to take on, "at the very minimum, a $100 billion annual business...
Collectors of coincidences glumly observed that it might not be necessary for the U.S. to develop new players quickly. Twice before, when Australia took the cup from the U.S., international complications prevented Davis Cup play for quite a while. The years...
...Ordnance Department has also established a new pattern of industrial mobilization. It has divided the U.S. into five areas, each designed to develop its own independent tank production system in case of all-out mobilization. Such decentralization, the department believes, will not only have strategic advantages, but will distribute the economic load of mobilization evenly throughout the country, and help prevent large-scale migration of skilled labor to a few industrial centers...
...Congress gave him the taxes and limited powers he had requested, Truman insisted, inflation could be avoided without all-out controls. He declared that "serious shortages of consumer goods will not develop unless they are created artificially." He urged buyers to "refrain from hoarding or avarice," urged producers to practice "restrained pricing," asked labor to avoid "wage demands of a character which might lead to another inflationary spiral...