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Louisiana solons, in recent legislative action, failed by the slim margin of five votes to legalize the slaying of Harvard graduates and Rhodes Scholars in that state...
Since the end of the war CPA has been faced with the problem of domestic v. foreign demand for goods. While OPA lived, the problem was minor. Ceiling prices on exports left too small a margin of profit to suck any large amount of goods away from the domestic market. But with ceilings off, CPA saw trouble ahead. Most world commodity prices are 25% to 100% higher than those in the U.S. There was little to prevent nations with abundant dollar exchange from buying, at fantastic prices, the goods Americans themselves were still short of. So CPA plans to permit...
Since the dining halls run on a close margin and one year's surplus has to balance another's deficit, adoption of this plan would mean a commensurate rise in either the seven-day resident rate or in the charge per meal, Reynolds concluded...
Several ways to restore the carrot suggest themselves. Any form of payment by results works in the right direction. So does any attempt to preserve the margins of income that can be secured by greater skill or experience -and it is the real margin, after taxation, that counts. ... It will only lead to disaster to pretend that ordinary human beings are angels or philosophers (of either the Marxist or the Spencerian professions). . . . Even in the 20th Century, most of them are more like donkeys driven by desire for gain or fear of hunger...
...Politician Harry Truman had counted on Congress picking up the cue and becoming his supporting cast in a last-minute rescue, he soon learned his mistake. Within a few minutes after hearing his message, the House-by a margin of 38 votes-sustained the veto. The Senate turned down a resolution that would have extended the present law temporarily. It required unanimous consent-and Texan O'Daniel immediately objected. At midnight, 34 hours later, OPA died...