Word: chester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work with Chester Bowles and know the difficulty of his task were surprised and pleased to find TIME so ably presenting both sides of the story of inflation in your March 4 issue...
...President went back over parts of his wage-price policy, gave Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles the signal to tell U.S. business the vastly complex new regulations under which it now must operate (see BUSINESS...
...words (some of them ambiguous), Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles this week told industry what the new wage-price policy really means. The clarification still left vast areas of fog. The policy does not mean, said Bowles, that the 18½?-an-hour steel increase is to be the pattern for U.S. industry. Nor does it mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages...
...committee of the Sinclair Oil Corp.; Justin Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters; Clarence Francis, board chairman of the General Foods Corp.; George Gallup of Young & Rubicam; Henry R. Luce, TIME Inc.; James W. Young of J. Walter Thompson Co.; Dr. William I. Myers of Cornell University; Chester C. Davis of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Anna Lord Strauss, president of the League of Women Voters; Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
That was the situation last week when Chester Bowles went to work. Mr. Bowles, busy cutting "wage-patterns," cut one for the meat industry - a 16? wage boost for packinghouse workers, 1½% boost in the price of meat, continued subsidies to cattle raisers and slaughterers...