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...days before, the Democratic Digest had come off Capitol presses with the charge that a vote for the stringent Case anti-strike bill had been a "vote against the American people...
...seemed to Wilson Wyatt high time for stringent measures. The U.S. building-materials industry is far behind schedule. At current production rates, it will turn out this year only 504,000 bathtubs (as against 1,025,000 needed for the housing program alone); only 15,900,000 square feet of radiators (40,500,000 needed); only 350,000,000 concrete blocks (425,-000,000 needed). Large commercial builders, who have the advantage in the market and usually get what they want, had threatened to use almost the entire supply themselves...
...sales had zoomed to $57 million. Then along came the Federal Government's famed Regulation W, stringent new rules on credit terms. Spiegel's, its sales suddenly cut in half, was almost trampled to death by the cash-dealing giants, lost $2.4 million in 1943. Modie Spiegel decided that the best way to survive was to expand into direct retailing. He began concocting his new prescription. Its name: "The Five Store Plan...
...Canada this posed a major problem. The Dominion had lost one-sixth of her population to the U.S. before 1930. Stringent immigration and wartime controls had helped dry up that stream. Now the stream was rising again...
...Governments which "have no real moral background; they evolve of necessity in the direction of ever greater centralization and more stringent uniformity...