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Reuben wrote to his Congressmen. Post-office crews had to wade through his mail -10,000 letters for Senator Taft alone. Letters poured in from farmers, labor, housewives, white-collar workers. Whatever the sins of OPA, the U.S. consumer had been persuaded by ex-Advertising Man Chester Bowles that only...
The nylon lines, the "no-butter-today" signs, the creeping national scandal of the black market were signs of the times. They were also OPA's Achilles' heel. What was the use of price control when there were no goods under the price tags? The U.S. consumer craved...
¶ Received from the Agriculture Committee a unanimous recommendation that meat subsidies be ended July 1, and that meat producers be given compensatory price increases which would up consumer bills about 6? a Ib.
In the most extensive decontrol action yet taken, OPA suspended ceilings on: 1) $3,000,000,000 worth of industrial equipment out of some $15,000,000,000 to be produced this year; 2) several hundred consumer items of minor importance to the cost of living. Examples: fly swatters, locomotives...
In general, ceilings were suspended rather than removed. One exception was cosmetics, which were finally exempted from price control. If there is an inflationary rise in prices, ceilings will be promptly slapped on again. Still under price control after OPA's ax-work: 1) 85% of all food items...