Show MUNICIPAL TIN CUP PLANNERS eric johnston president of the united states chamber of commerce told a house committee on postwar policies that state and city demands for federal support of their public works must diminish that local governments are generally in condition to finance their own needs ata at a chicago meeting of the american society of planning officials a member of the new york city planning commission stressed the importance of federal state financial aid in carrying out the postwar plans of the greatest city in the united states commenting on municipal begging the wall street journal said the new yorker is far from alone in holding out the municipal tin cup or dishpan if cities the ability and pride to handle their own postwar financing the nation can kiss the idea of a balanced national budget goodbye and prepare for federal taxation and inflation that will make a dollar bill look like a thin dime industria industrial Indu news review |