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...things of life on the installment plan has been greatly restricted by Regulation W, a wartime emergency measure. Buyers have had to plunk down one-third of the purchase price on cars, refrigerators, etc., pay off the rest within 15 months. Last week, President Truman said he would soon scrap Regulation W as he does not feel that such war measures should be retained indefinitely. But he hoped Congress would make consumer credit control permanent. Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the House Banking and Currency Committee why it should...
...still has $13 billion of unsold surpluses on hand. But he did not think much of this could be sold. His chances of selling much of what's left seem so poor that he plans to ask Congress to let him give it to public schools, or scrap it to save upkeep costs...
...best reasons for believing that the two countries can work out these differences are 1) their growing identity of eco nomic interest, and 2) the Aléman administration's recognition of the fact. Mexico needs U.S. scrap for steelmaking, U.S. autos for transport, U.S. dollars for expansion. "Poor Mexico," many a Mexican has sighed, "so far from God, so near the United States." Time has taken much of the sting out of his complaint...
Then Churchill took over. "Now," said Mose, "we gwine win. Chickcharneys got no grudge dere." And with Chamberlain's abandoned railroad track melted down and sent to Britain for scrap, Mose's prediction proved entirely correct...
...listen to his rich Russian voice, but they seldom try to understand his speeches. Even grownups who listen intently to Gromyko do not always hear the same things. Last week, many thought Gromyko was saying again that the U.S. should promise not to use The Bomb and to scrap those it has before any solid machinery is built to enforce atomic arms control...