Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...some time to come. ¶ The economy had expanded so rapidly since 1945 that the ratio of butter v. guns could be higher than during World War II-in fact, civilian production had to be higher to maintain full employment and keep the economy healthy. ¶ The so-called "indirect controls" on credit and construction have been effective in cutting back demand (see below...
...before the committee to complain came the National Automobile Dealers' Association, aided & abetted by the C.I.O. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther. Indirect controls, they cried, were awful. Regulation W was so harsh, said New Jersey Dealer William L. Mallon, that "many thousands of new car dealers [might be] compelled to discontinue their business." The auto dealers wanted the payment time on new cars to be extended from 15 to 18 months...
...Your refusal, in spite of earlier promises, to give any publicity at all to the important fact that Harvard University students were both direct and indirect beneficiaries of the Red Feather Community Fund in either your advance story on the College Combined Charities Drive (10/25/50), or in your story on the opening day of the drive (10/31/50). (The three buried lines in your later editorial (11/1/50) were wholly ineffective, not merely because they came after most of your readers had already made up their minds, but also because you were entirely too brief to summarize fairly the written statement...
...whole. It is certainly not legitimate to attack any newspaper for failure to pick out Dean Hall's favorite charity and publicize it more than the others. The CRIMSON agrees wholeheartedly with Dean Hall that the Community Fund drive is very important and of both direct and indirect benefit to Harvard students. We are sorry that we could not devote even more space to the whole Combined Charities drive. We are not sorry that we did not discriminate among the charities involved in that drive
...nothing-a-year" men would be forbidden to negotiate or sign contracts with any company in which they had a "direct or indirect interest." As another precaution, the names of all such men and their private employers were to be published in the Federal Register for inspection. The President made it clear, however, that he was unhappy about the whole thing...