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...royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened after the U.N. commission's arrival, flared up again, this time farther south than before; Communists boldly raided the Sparta prison, freed 200 prisoners...
...tons to turn out the needed monthly minimum of 10,000 cars. The automakers, they cried, were getting far more than their share of steel, while railroads were getting the same percentage (9%) that they got during the war. Snapped Railway Age: "Of all the tremendous tonnage of steel freed for civilian use when war production ceased, the railroads have received not one pound. . . ." But that was only part of the trouble. The U.S. was finally paying for depression and war years which had kept car building far below needs. If car builders got the steel they needed...
Family Affair. In Tulsa, Mrs. Jessie Eli had the cops collar two strange young men who had entered her house, next day asked to have them freed when she learned they were her brothers...
...itself of wartime controls as a giant might escape from a straitjacket-roaring, ripping and kicking, with little regard for himself or the bystanders. Nevertheless, Gulliver, freed, defeated most of the Blefuscudians -the shortages of foods & goods. And the great drop in Government spending ($45 billion less than in 1945) was made up by private spending. U.S. retail sales reached a record of $96 billion; $105 billion was poured out in wages & salaries, and net corporate profits totaled an estimated $12 billion, some 20% more than 1944's record high. Farmers raised the most profitable crop in history...
...world-trade proposals, the U.S. Government had properly defined the fruits of victory as a "limited and temporary power to establish the kind of world we want to live in." In 1946, by wild exertions, the U.S. established and freed its own economy. In 1947, its big task would be to prove that it could drive a disciplined free economy in harness. Only then would the U.S. have a chance to establish the kind of economic world it wanted to live...