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In part, the change of policy is merely recognition of the fact that arms production is woefully behind schedule. But the real significance is political. Arms production could be put on schedule by a tighter squeeze on civilian goods. That, however, would disrupt large segments of the economy, and in...
Squeeze. In Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Anna Katzman got two notices from the city: 1) the tax assessment on her tenement house was raised 20%, 2) the building was declared unfit for occupancy.
Since war's end, Georgia-Pacific has boosted sales from $13 million to an estimated $65 million this year, and has become the nation's biggest plywood producer.* But it owned little timberland, thus was afraid of being caught in a price squeeze in purchasing its raw material...
Fruit juice: "The designers and constructors squeezed out of the O.K.B. budget ... all the juice they needed, but the institutions that needed fruit juice dispensers have been unable to squeeze out of the O.K.B. one single dispenser." Cost of the fruit-juice project: 250,000 rubles.
The Observatory has also produced a formula for finding the coldest week of this cold winter. By checking over 67 years of records, the weathermen have decided that the week between January 30 and February 8 is the winter's coldest, with Groundhog Dav. February 2, putting the greatest squeeze...