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...last week inflation was no longer a future threat to the U.S., it was here. Since August 1939 (chosen by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the index month for prices of 28 basic commodities) prices have risen steadily. After 23 months of piecemeal price control, the Administration and the House Banking & Currency Committee hacked out a tentative control bill. Last August the committee began hearings. After two weeks of desultory wrangling, the committeemen adjourned. The price index then had risen...
...order to eliminate the problem of overconcentration, a dangerous threat to Harvard's Hberal tradition the Faculty last year adopted a plan which insures that a student has a well distribution program of courses...
...Kitty" is one of the few men of Harvard to whom Harvard Square was no threat. He disdained automobile traffic as an intrusion into human existence, and he forced automobiles to yield to him. He crossed streets when he felt like it, not on the dictates of a traffic light...
...this country should be opposing it [war] ... for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." The plain implication was that the Jews will be blamed for war if it comes and will be persecuted because of it when opportunity arises. If this was not a threat it was the next thing...
...have been talking about inflation for a long time as if it were a threat remote from our daily lives. It is a distant threat no longer. We are facing it now. . . . The most effective way to prevent damaging price rises is, quite simply, to release surpluses from storage. I wonder if the housewife knows, when she pays 15% more than she did a year ago for a bag of flour, that our supply of wheat is the largest on record. . . . It seems to me desirable and necessary that we permit the entry of Canadian wheat in larger volume...