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...WPTB, having failed to keep down prices by Hendersonesque "jaw control," imposed an overall, Baruch-type ceiling on wages and prices. Based on maximums for the weeks Sept. 15-Oct. 11, it starts Dec. 1. Last week, on the eve of the new decree's effectiveness, Canada heard tough talk from Donald Gordon, no longer shy and gangling (he is 6 ft. 3 in., 233 lb.). Warned he: "Rather than allow retail prices to rise, the prices of wholesalers and manufacturers must be reduced. Price control is going to be made effective. . . . You cannot compromise with inflation...
...President had one thing that the nation was spared, a cold. He stayed close to his second-floor quarters in the White House. The time he had intended to spend traveling dragged like the hours of any enforced delay. He welcomed Bernard Baruch-who has stayed away in recent weeks since castigating the U.S. defense effort. The problem of Lewis and Labor dragged on and grew more bitter (see p.20). The problems of inflation grew more wearisome...
Last week, in Ottawa, Prime Minister King broadcast to all Canadians Canada's answer to inflation. It was an overall ceiling on prices and wages such as Bernard Baruch has advocated...
...unless the industry gets a measly 5,688 tons of copper, 1.409 tons of zinc, in 1942. Without it he saw at least two ghost towns: North Attleboro and Attleboro, Mass., dead center of the industry in this war as in the last. In 1918 Barney Baruch had not let Attleboro go under...
Then, in 1914, when Bill Bingham was a Junior and the Gold Coast was really fourteen carat, Snowball came to Cambridge and tried his hand at laundry, pressing, and punch-concocting. In those days, the great Club controllers like Chase Mellon, young Barney Baruch, et al, inhabited 6 Holyoke Place (now a parking lot), Claverly, Randolph, and Westmorley. "Then, they went more for the straight stuff with a little ginger alc or soda," reflects the alcoholic expert. "They had pride in holding their own whiskeys. Now that the punch has come in, they start right off with the idea...