Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ingenuity still finds a way to defy or bypass the government. A woman who was determined to found the first diaper laundry and supply service in England (The Rockabye Nappy Service at Enfield, Middlesex) could not buy diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could do, she's in business...
Even on the most favorable assumptions, British progress is a race between rising productivity and rising costs, a flight from the fact that real British incomes are higher than Britain yet earns. But as of the spring of 1950, all signs and statistics suggest that Britain can make...
...Allied High Commission for Germany last week gave two sharp slaps to Western Germany's Bonn government: HICOM vetoed two laws, one on civil service and one on income tax, which had been adopted by Bonn's Parliament. The veto on civil service seemed to make more sense than the other...
...Germans economic freedom. Asked one angry German politician: "What have taxes got to do with Allied security, or the elimination of Naziism and militarism?" Whether the Americans or the Germans were right about the economic effects of the tax law, it seemed to be the Germans' right to make the decision...
...back into the game with a note to the U.S.: all occupation forces must be withdrawn from Trieste. Purpose of the Russian note was to heighten the U.S. embarrassment, and it achieved that aim. The embarrassment would continue until the U.S. exerted enough pressure on Yugoslavia and Italy to make them agree to a settlement of the Trieste question...