Word: step
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Froze automobile prices as of Dec. 1, canceling price boosts just announced by Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and Nash (see BUSINESS). The President's Economic Stabilization Agency therewith took the first big step toward selective wage and price controls. Others expected: steel, aluminum and copper. ESA begged the rest of industry and labor to adopt voluntary controls. Such pleading had never worked before, and would not this time, but ESA was simply not prepared to police a nationwide control order...
More Work, Fewer Goods. There would be other big steps, the President made clear, as fast as the blueprints, the manpower and the administrators could be assembled and kinks straightened out. One step would be "a very rapid speedup" of military production. Salient items: five times as much aircraft production within a year (present rate: about 3,000 a year), four times as many combat vehicles, 4½ times as much electronic equipment. Taxes would be much higher. There would be a longer work week for production workers, fewer civilian goods...
Before a battery of microphones at the annual dinner of the New York County Lawyers Association, Governor Dewey advocated: calling up the entire National Guard forthwith; universal military service; de-mothballing the entire Navy; a draft step-up to give the U.S. 100 divisions, each nearly twice the size of Russian divisions; an Air Force of at least 80 groups...
After two years lost in haggling-five meetings of NATO Foreign Ministers, four of Defense Ministers-the West was finally taking a decisive step toward rearmament...
...trial scenes, the summations of the prosecutor and defense are punctuated by a series of concise flashbacks which show the various witnesses testifying. Step by step, they lead to the inevitable but still surprising verdict which is delivered at the close of the film...