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...start construction on 120 ships to bring the U. S. Navy up to treaty strength. ¶Philippine independence after a ten-year trial period. ¶Prohibition against loans, public or private, to any nation in default on its debts to the U. S. C. A tax law to plug leaks and raise $417,000,000 per year. ¶A commission to regulate stock exchanges. ¶Authority for the President to reduce tariff rates 50% in negotiating for reciprocal tariff reductions by other nations. C. New methods for municipal and corporate bankruptcy...
...that the Cambridge police have adopted the traditional method of putting down rebellions, speculation was rife concerning the probability of seeing Colonel Apted mounted on a spirited plug in the near future. What the consequence of such a change in tactics would be no one dared surmise, but rumor had it that the Chief was polishing his boots...
...farm producer. Last June wheat ran above $1 per bu. for the first time in three years. But even inflation talk, crop damages and drought could not hold it there, with the result that the long interests grew increasingly impatient. Mr. Morgenthau's pronouncement on rye pulled the plug in the holding dyke. There was not much sense in a heavy long position, traders argued, when the Federal Government, eagerly seeking reciprocal trade agreements, might hand down other rulings as favorable to foreign imports as the decision on rye. Orders to sell began to gush into the whole grain...
...might have, had not Secretary of Agriculture Wallace chosen the next day to do a little inadvertent plug-pulling of his own at a press conference. U. S. wheat prices, said he, must ultimately be put on a parity with world wheat prices. Traders knew that could mean only one thing: the Government's artificial pegging of domestic wheat prices...
...Senate was in but moderately perverse form. It let considerable portions of the House bill stand, merely changing most significant figures and altering the amount of revenue to be collected by 100%. The House Ways & Means Committee after months of lucubration had drafted a bill whose purpose was to plug leaks in the income tax law but to raise little new revenue except what came from plugging leaks. The House bill as passed was estimated to raise U. S. revenues about $250,000,000 a year...