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...proven it could hold down inflation, rather than "gambling with plans proposed by the National Association of Manufacturers in advertisements," Roosevelt pointed out that "It's the little guy who gets hurt in inflation. Veterans don't get rich in the war," he said, citing surveys indicating that 84 percent of them could afford only a maximum of $6,000 for building homes of $50 monthly rent...
...more than several married friends of mine pay for four room apartments in privately owned buildings much newer than the century old Yard dormitories. Yet the authorities of Harvard University have the nerve to announce a series of rent increases varying from ten to as high as fifty-two percent...
...position on Pakistan was just as firm as Jinnah's. The party's official head, goateed Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem who looks like a caricature of a Kentucky colonel, paced up & down in his Delhi quarters last week, smoking a big cigar. "Eighty percent of the Indian people live in villages where Hindus and Moslems get along well together-the only trouble is among the twenty percent living in the cities. This is basically an economic conflict, not religious." Jawaharlal Nehru made the plainest answer: "Nothing on earth, including the United Nations, is going to bring...
Morrison's picture may not disturb the "just another weapon" school of thought which relaxes securely in its belief that defenses will fix everything. But Louis N. Ridenour shows the impotency of anything under one hundred percent defense, and the physical impossibility of anything over ninety percent defense. It is the huge destructive power of the bomb that makes even ten percent efficiency economical from an attacker's viewpoint. For, per square mile destroyed, an atomic bomb of the Hiroshima class is six times cheaper than other explosives, according to General Arnold, and possibly up to one hundred times cheaper...
...average 40 percent rise in hourly wages for labor--consuming half of every cost dollar weighs meet heavily in the total. Maids' pay has rises presently from 40 to 60 cents an hour...