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Show FREE ENTERPRISE MAY BE LOST AFTER TIIE WAR Free enterprise after the war might easily be lost by this country coun-try If business adopts a policy of pricing goods "at what the traffic traf-fic will bear" Instead of establishing establish-ing price policies that make for high production. This is the conclusion of Dr. Edwin Ed-win G. Nourse, vice-president of the Brookings Institute. He adds that capital and labor must steel themselves against the lure of Immediate Im-mediate profits. The report points out that business busi-ness can find permanent prosperity prosper-ity and maximum long-run profits only within a prosperous society, to which policies and practices of business must contribute. The warning to avoid the lure of immediate profits might be heeded by farmers with similar benefits. The welfare of farmers also depends de-pends upon a prosperous society, to which agricultural policies and practices must contribute. |