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...beginning was FDR. People all over the nation got to know those initials. Then came the begats. FDR begat NRA, FERA, CWA, AAA, WPA and PWA. Some begats, like NRA, died without issue, others begat more. OEM (Office for Emergency Management) was the first war bureau. Then NDAC (National Defense Advisory Commission) begat SPAB (Supply, Priorities and Allocations Board), which begat WPB (War Production Board...
...price enforcement, every bit as big as that of NRA (different only in that this time the job will be to keep prices down instead of to keep them up be any more successful than it was in 1935? (The problem will include policing the prices of 2,000,000 retail outlets, with fifty times as many customers, selling at least as many items for over $50,000,000,000 a year...
...Ballad Singers was Elie Siegmeister, a dark, merry, 33-year-old Brooklyn composer (May Day for orchestra, We Want the World for chorus, Hip Hip Hooray for NRA, an operetta). Elie Siegmeister talks with a touch of Brooklynese, teaches composition and piano for a living, bicycles to Coney Island for exercise. When he gets interested, he gets interested. When he got interested in balladry eleven years ago, he pored over thousands of songs in the Library of Congress, picked up many a ditty by word of mouth. He now knows 800. He trained his Ballad Singers-six professionals-to sing...
Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr., 46, assistant director of the National Resources Planning Board. Pale, slight Tom Blaisdell taught economics at Columbia University and Yenching University-biggest, best-equipped Christian university in China-has worked for the Government on AAA, NRA, TNEC, National Emergency Council, Social Security Board...
Moreover, from Barnes's candor at its most candid, it appeared that haste and Hitler were not the only villains of the piece. The ghost of NRA, he revealed, still stalks the ship repair yards. Because Todd competitor United Drydock (since bought by Bethlehem Steel) was in danger of going broke, the NRA code fixed all repair yard rates on the basis of daily wages paid, plus 35 or 40% overhead, plus machine rentals, plus 10% "profits." The arrival of war and a flood of Government work found this antique formula still in effect. As the yards filled, overhead...