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...Most local OPA or rationing board officials assert that there is little or no tire bootlegging in their district, harp on the fact that 80% of all new tires on the loose last December now rest in manufacturers' warehouses. But the remaining 20% is enough to support a brisk bootleg trade. Thus, of 3,500 tire dealers checked in the New York-New Jersey area, OPA itself found that at least 1% were actual violators. Of 1,575 dealers in five Western States, at least 60 were exposed as law breakers...
...Chief of the War Production Board. > Silver-haired, tall, tan and handsome Paul Varies McNutt, a joiner and doer who once looked like a merely ambitious politician, wound up last week as chief of all the nation's manpower in the new War Manpower Commission (see col. 2). > Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against inflation and its rationing schemes, bossed civilian supply. and became the biggest financial man in the U.S. as boss of OPA. > The team of thoughtful, gentle Vice President Henry Wallace and his alter ego, Businessman...
...spring green touched the trees; and the King & Queen had Sunday lunch with the visitors. Between frequent rests abed, frail Mr. Hopkins conferred with Lease-Lender W. Averell Harriman and the ministers-who counsel Churchill on Britain's policies and potentials. General Marshall passed many hours with keen, brisk General Sir Alan Francis...
...transatlantic flying boat taxied to a mooring in Miami, and out stepped a brisk welterweight with a carved-coconut face, Britain's fabulous Lord Beaverbrook. Scrunched into a black overcoat, he emplaned for Washington. There he dined with the President...
...that area, and as far south as Orel, below Moscow, the ground remained fairly hard, the weather brisk. Beyond, toward the Black Sea, the thaw had set in and the two armies fought in bottomless, gluey...