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...angry words, as Bowles well knows, bring few beeves to market. So he also acted. He broadened OPA's plan of "incentive" price increases to coax the quick production of more consumers' goods, chiefly low-priced articles. Shoe manufacturers were granted a wholesale price boost of 42%, cheap furniture makers 7-13%, radio makers 10-15%, makers of lawn mowers 17%. On some cotton goods such as bedspreads and table linen, price boosts ran from as much as 20% to 40%. Before long, OPA expects to give sizable price increases also to makers of electrical appliances and household...
...flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...
...that price increases should be given now, on the basis of present earnings. Cutbacks in war contracts, said he, had made present operations in the industry abnormal. They would not be back to "normal" until early in 1946. At that time, said Mr. Bowles, the matter of a price boost would be taken up again...
...more than joo small, nonintegrated steel makers, he held out a closer hope. Even the OPA is willing to admit that many of the small companies, without the advantage of ore-to-ingot production, are losing money. Mr. Bowles promised them a price boost...
...once receiving sets were on the market. But the best part of the FCC ruling was an order to commercial television stations to get busy, increase their broadcasting time to a minimum of 28 hours a week (twice as much as the present best average in New York). This boost in time will encourage manufacturers to rush new sets. Thus far, a price up to $500 has been too steep for such an idle gadget...