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Reason for the sudden change: the advent of World War II changed the minds of Marion's customers in the latent coal-copper-iron business. They wanted shovels -wanted them fast. In ten days Marion got $1,000,000 worth of orders (one-sixth of a normal year's business...
First result was a belittled report that price control by decree was near (see p. 64), As President and as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Franklin Roosevelt indeed had at hand a host of latent powers, all the broader because many are implied rather than specific. Some stem from the U. S. Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under...
This week he pushed his sorest worry, cotton, in a new direction. In the 1936 Soil Conservation Act, Secretary Wallace was empowered to use his funds to expand foreign markets and remove domestic surpluses of commodities or commodity products. Under this authority, and that latent in the 1939 Farm Appropriation Bill, he may spend $50,000,000 in subsidizing export cotton and cotton products. This was the first time that the "products" phrase of the authority had been used, and it was a politically agile move, since nobody has damned the New Deal, particularly its Wage & Hour Bill, harder than...
Curtiss has begun to realize potentialities latent since his Freshman year as his standout work in baffling the University of Pennsylvania nine Saturday in Philadelphia indicates...
...wonder if you realized the widespread implications of your editorial of February 27 concerning the latent dangers to our cultural growth resulting from the increased use of that "newfangled" idea: the electric razor. Your stand represents the eternal stand of the narrow-minded reactionary...