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The U.N. seems far from ready for the logical next step: a naval blockade. Douglas MacArthur had proposed it. George Marshall had shied from a unilateral U.S. blockade, chiefly because it would involve the halting of Russian and other foreign ships. Some Administration supporters are now veering toward the idea...
¶ $2,750,000,000 by a partial sales tax (which C.E.D. has previously shied away from) on clothing, furnishings, services.
Their proposal was important. It represented a growing body of U.S. opinion, which feels that only with the help of a national sales tax can the U.S. finance its rearmament program and remain economically sound. There is nothing new in the sales tax idea. National sales and purchase taxes date...
War's end put Aerojet into a brief downward glide. Commercial airlines shied away from Jato because of the cost (the $185 bottle can only be used once) and the fact that the take-off roar scared spectators. But military orders sent Aerojet soaring again-jet planes such as...
Connally's yielding and Acheson's scorn neither relieved nor silenced the Republicans. Ohio's Robert Taft read a 1,500-word statement to the Senate, instead of talking impromptu as he usually does. Said he: "There can be no crossing [by Communists to Formosa] if our...