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...Germany's air preponderance over the Allies, and the United States as well, according to Den Hartog and Bollay, is not the quality of the pilot training but the quantity. Unless America expands rapidly both pilot training and aircraft production, "in 15 years we shall be in the same fix England is now," they asserted...
...been dead three years when a Federal jury and judge at Madison, Wis. convicted twelve U. S. oil companies, two tycoons and three underlings of fixing (and raising) prices in the Midwest-what NRA had previously encouraged them to do.* For violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, each company was fined $5,000, each individual defendant $1,000. Upholding the convictions this week, the U. S. Supreme Court-which had just heard the Government argue its own right to fix coal prices (see p. 83)-knocked out any idea that under the law there is good price-fixing...
Education. Boss Pew still winces when he recalls that he "fell for" Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. He continued to support the New Deal until NRA tried to fix oil prices and regulate the ruggedly individualistic oil industry. This was too much for Joe Pew. Said he: "Price-fixing is an evil, wicked thing." Every time the price of gasoline is raised 1?, he figures, exactly 6¼% of the total business dries up. He believes that price-fixing and production-curtailment, beyond ordinary conservation, are sins against God and Nature...
With no opponent at all, Strong Man Batista was in a worse fix than if he had had a strong opponent. If he is elected unopposed, his enemies can raise the cry of dictatorship, which Strong Man Batista would hate to hear. At week's end he pleaded with Dr. Grau to reconsider his withdrawal, to file again before the deadline, April...
Captain Margesson's great & good friend Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose sterner political chores the Captain does, was not in quite such a bad fix as Parliament sat again. But he was in no good fix. Great Britain was grousing about the war's inactivity and part of the press was after ministerial scalps, if not that of Mr. Chamberlain himself. The Prime Minister had to do something, and the best guess was that he would shuffle, but not shake up, his Cabinet, probably reduce his nine-man War Cabinet, possibly give Winston Churchill more war powers (TIME...