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...isolated price rises start the upward trend," he stated. "If a free market is to be legally regulated, it must be completely regulated, not merely in certain places as Leon Henderson is doing. Sacrifices must be made either in income or in paying higher prices," he added...
Although they suffered from not being acclimated to the rarefied air, the party toiled upward for several days over steep ice packs and snow banks until two huge cornices, or overhanging ledges of ice, and a dangerous avalanche tunnel barred all further progress...
Shen-Nung and Captain Mease. Biggest soybean wonder is not its dizzy upward climb among U.S. crops but the late start it got. Botanists and chemists call it the world's most all-round useful crop. Yet its widely publicized new industrial uses still consume only about 2% of the U.S. crop, most of which will go for purposes known to the Chinese as far back as 2838 B.C., when it was called China's greatest legume in a materia medica written by the Emperor Shen-Nung ("The Heavenly Farmer...
Even where Henderson had imposed ceilings, there was no stopping the upward trend. When he "suggested" fair prices for gasoline at Northeastern Seaboard filling stations last week, most dealers kept selling for at least ½? higher. Henderson himself admitted that the six-month-old steel scrap ceiling was generally ignored and threatened to "crack down" (but he did not say with what...
...excise taxes if only to have them on hand as bargaining points in wrangling with the House over broadening the income base. By merging last year's special defense tax with the surtax rate, the committee proposed to increase the lowest surtax rate from 5% to 6%, readjust upward the rate for higher brackets. What will happen to the committee's bill when it reaches the Senate floor, no one could foretell...