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Four months ago Canada adopted the over-all ceiling plan-devised by Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch out of his World War I experience-after piecemeal stopgaps had failed. Now the U.S. was in the same fix. Price Boss Leon Henderson, who had tried to control prices by tackling them one at a time, was like a man with a rotted garden hose; as soon as he repaired one leak, a new one popped...
...have converted themselves to war. The whole automobile industry has gone to war. Detroit-and not only its Henry Fords but its Bud Goodmans and Frank Morisettes and Eddie Hunts and Roscoe Smiths-had gone to war. The whole U.S. nation was going to roll up its sleeves and fix Armageddon...
...public would demand its half a pound per week, when retailers do not have it to sell. But the Senate committee will be far more daring than the Administration if it has the nerve to tackle the political interests which have gotten the U.S. into its present sugar fix...
Returning to the attitude of students today, Rand stated that "the unification of this country has not yet been perfected." Many of the isolationist sentiments of young people, he remarked, must be attributed to the postwar historians, who were unable to fix the guilt for the last war and so spread the conviction that this was a purely imperialist struggle. "Things would have been different if we had joined the League," he concluded...
This week a court of inquiry under Rear Admiral Lamar R. Leahy, retired, sat down to try to fix the blame. Did the Lafayette's elaborate fire-detector system operate? What had happened to her fire-fighting equipment? Was a fire patrol on watch? Why allow men to operate acetylene torches so close to inflammable kapok...