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...almost completely. It kicked out provisions to give Leon Henderson licensing power over business and unrestricted right to buy and sell commodities-big-stick enforcement clauses. It created a fiveman board of review with veto power over Henderson's actions. The House insisted on keeping an inflationary three-point formula for farm prices, even added a parity scheme for fish. Finally passed by a 224-161 vote, the bill was now little more than a scrap of paper...
...minimum three-point program on which the Merger Committee was set up, and upon which the new organization expects to build, calls for all aid to the nations fighting Hitler, maintenance and extension of domestic democracy, and U. S. participation in a just peace after...
...Krug will "handle all defense power problems." Krug lost no time in taking these words at face value. He romped through press conferences, held many a private interview. There was talk of his setting up an advisory committee to review the whole power situation. Then he announced a three-point OPM program to: 1) create three vast regional power pools; 2) assure "adequate power" for defense and civilian needs; 3) force better priorities for electrical equipment...
...official specifications were released, but dealers described the six as a cheaper, more economical (than the V-8), 90-h.p. L-head engine with three-point suspension...
...such an atmosphere Japan's new Ambassador to the U. S., one-eyed Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, sailed for San Francisco with six glass eyes and a three-point policy. The policy: 1) Japan wall stick to the alliance with Germany and Italy; 2) Japan will be boss of the Far East; 3) if the U. S. will accept Points 1 and 2, Japan will try to be friends...