During war emergencies high marginal tax rates on individual income are viewed as a necessary complement to wage and price controls, but their value in a peacetime tax structure has been questioned.
Women and girls are at great risk of abduction, trafficking and sexual violence, including the use of rape as a weapon of war; emergencies, in most cases, also exacerbate gender based vulnerabilities.
In this war that is not exactly a war, Emergency represents one of the few places that offers something like an accounting.
A weary civil servant observed: "Another hare, the breakdown of public morale in a war emergency and consequent flight from the capital, was let loose.
During the Vietnam War, emergency medics began using the all-purpose glue to seal battle wounds in troops headed for surgery.
This task, which must be undertaken as if it were a war emergency, could be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products, by preventing the growing loss, through foreclosure, of American small homes, and by the rational planning of transportation, communications and other public utilities.
"The guts of the matter is that in a war emergency a task of the police would be to ensure that, as it does in peacetime (eg peak holiday weekends), that the country does not come to a grinding halt through traffic congestion howsoever caused".
In part, New York City brought the apartment scarcity on itself when, during World War II, it instituted the "War Emergency Tenant Protection Act," meant to keep workers and soldiers from being priced out of the city during the conflict.
FDR, it should be remembered, asked for powers to fight the Depression as if it were a war emergency.
As Assistant Secretary, Ismay directed several of the subcommittees of the Committee of Imperial Defence, including those for Censorship and War Emergency Legislation, Principal Supply Officers, and Co-ordination of Departmental Action.
Several of my colleagues were 'graduates' of post-war emergency training and were some of the finest and most sensible teachers I've ever worked with.
