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The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The U.S. Congress has rejected legislation to provide subsidies to producers, a decision which could lead to a rise in inflation. Edward J. Jeffries, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, has requested representative Martin Dies not conduct an investigation with the U.S. Committee on Un-American Activities on race riots in Detroit. The U.S. Congress is considering dismantling the National Youth Administration.

The article presents U.S. news briefs as of February 21, 1944. The U.S. State Department has requested that the British government censor news that discusses U.S. foreign policy. It is speculated that the majority in the U.S. Congress may pass a bill that would forbid food subsidies. U.S. tax forms seem to be confusing to many Americans.

Focuses on the effects of various wartime legislative actions by the U.S. Congress. Ban on subsidies by the U.S. Office of Price Administration; Campaign against the Smith-Connally anti-labor bill; Details of lobbying by the National Association of Manufacturers and big farmers in the Congress; Argument against the war administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Effect of such policies on wartime morale and wartime national unity.

Focuses on the economic policy in Great Britain during wartime and compares it with the policy in the U.S. Policies adopted by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer to prevent the rise in the cost of living during war; Extension of price control to include food, transportation, fuel and other articles in common use; Extension of subsidies to cover twelve basic food products and the transportation cost on these products; Revenue generation through income tax and sales tax; Sale of war bonds and certificates; Table illustrating the contrast in economic practices in Great Britain and the U.S.

Focuses on the opposition to the new agriculture program in the United States. Doubts over the cooperation of cotton producers for the new program; Increase in the prices of cotton; Views that cotton producers can make money by refusing to restrict acreage; Opposition to unlimited production by small cotton farmers; Support of the reduction program by the big planters; Criticism of the soil conservation law on pursuing irreconcilable objectives; Subsidy for farmers; Utilization of agricultural land in an efficient manner; Argument that subsidies do not ensure efficient land use; Emphasis on the encouragement of production cooperatives, in which many farmers would have possessed sufficient resources to purchase adequate equipment and hire expert advisers.

The article discusses the national convention of the Republican Party of the U.S. The article also focuses on the successful offensives on the eastern front by the Soviet Union. The Republican National Convention draws on Republican tradition, the next borrows freely from the New Deal, a bow made to free enterprise is followed by a salute to state intervention, states' rights are strongly upheld and a promise is made to Negroes of legislation which must encroach on states' rights. According to their platform Republicans favor free trade and the maintenance of tariffs and they are against subsidies for farm commodities but for support of prices and commodity loans.

The article reports on the disputes concerning the use of food subsidies for 1944 in the U.S. It highlights the food program of the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which has been proposed in the Congress. It states that the disputes over the food program will worsen once President Roosevelt will veto the antisubsidy legislation which would extend the life of Commodity Credit Corp. (CCC).

The article offers information on the opening speech to a new Parliament by Queen Elizabeth II in Great Britain's House of Lords. It mentions that the Queen's speech, which was prepared by her new Prime Minister Harold Wilson, made way for the Britons to have a clue as to how Wilson and his Labor Party plan to rule and retain power while having only 301 out of 635 seats of the House of Commons. It mentions Wilson's proposals which include subsidizing basic foodstuffs, limiting food profit margins as well as urgent measures to deal with the country's housing crisis. It further discusses Wilson's seeking of fundamental renegotiation of the terms under which Great Britain entered the Common Market will also cause trouble for him.

Focuses on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto of the anti-subsidy bill an the congressional reaction to it. Addition of the anti-subsidy ban to the Commodity Credit Corp. bill as a legislative rider; Discussion of Senator George W. Norris's reactionary postwar program; Information on the agency, Home Owners' Loan Corp. (HOLC); Details of a powerful banking lobby led by the U.S. Savings and Loan League that wants the HOLC liquidated now.

Focuses on an article by author George Sokolsky in which he argued against subsidies to keep down prices. Grievance of cattlemen against the driving out of small packers by U.S. Office of Price Administration; Demand by these cattlemen for a higher price of meat; Incidence of a premature sacrifice of cattle; Comparison between subsidies and Lend-Lease policies in the U.S. and Great Britain; Criticism of the U.S. policy on price regulation.

Focuses on the outcry in the U.S. Congress against the U.S. Office of Price Administration and its policy of rolling back prices by resorting to subsidies. Argument that the way to handle the food problem is to let prices seek their natural level thus encouraging greater production; Outbreak of strikes after relaxation of retail and wholesale prices; Report on lobbying by the farm bloc for modification or complete abolition of farm price controls; Favor of the Smith bill limiting the right to strike by the farm blocs; Steps taken by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to avoid economic chaos.

The article offers information related to the legislation regarding farm subsidies in the U.S. It highlights the demonstration by the U.S. industrial states to shoot down a proposal for a still bigger farm-subsidy handout. It states that the demonstrations began because Midwestern farm Democrats had boldly determined to play election-year politics with wheat.

The article focuses on the opposition of barge line operators in Mississippi to the subsidy bill in 1937. Among the initiatives aimed at reviving the old state are a floating hotel proposed by Reconstruction Finance Corp. and a fleet of fast, self-propelled barges for overnight passenger service between Saint Louis, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana. The bill requires the United States Maritime Commission to insure mortgages on floating property. Operators do not want the subsidy because they say it promotes competition.

The article offers information related to the parochial schools in the U.S. It comments that the government subsidies to parochial schools are unconstitutional because of the First Amendment ban on any law respecting an establishment of religion. It highlights the commitment of U.S. President Richard Nixon to find some constitutionally acceptable means of providing parochial school aid while 16 different states have devised their own systems for circumventing the ban. According to government attorney Lewis F Powell Jr., the consequence of all the plans for the parochial schools was a special economic benefit designed to preserve and support religion-oriented institutions.

The article focuses on the declining condition of the cotton industry in the U.S. It notes that only 2.7 million bales of cotton were exported in 1968 and that the industry is predicted to harvest little more than 11 million bales in 1969. It notes that the industry is being threatened by the rapid advances of synthetics and by the assault of cotton growers from other countries. Meanwhile, Department of Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin proposes modifications to the existing subsidy program.

The article presents comments from the British newspapers the "London Daily" and the "Daily Telegraph" on the defeat of President Warren G. Harding's Subsidy bill in the U.S. Congress.

The article reports on the agreement between the officials of the Commodity Credit Corp. and the cotton merchants and exporters to subsidize exports of cotton textiles as well as raw fiber under provisions of the surplus property disposal law in the U.S.

The article focuses on the revision of a bill related to the subsidy for the press presented by John H. Bankhead, a U.S. senator.