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...created a new office of fund vice president and named the man to fill it: Public Relations Man W. H. ("Ping") Ferry, 43, son of Packard Motor Car Co.'s onetime Board Chairman Hugh J. Ferry. A former teacher and newsman, Ferry worked with the International Labor Organization, OPA and the C.I.O.-P.A.C. during New Deal days. In 1945 he joined Manhattan's public relations firm of Earl Newsom & Co., where his duties included writing speeches for Henry Ford II and doing "think work" for the Ford Foundation. He is, says Hutchins, "the kind of man I need...
After retirement from the OPA in 1946, Glasser served for a brief time in a New York law firm and then obtained an appointment on the Rugers Law faculty...
...Chamber of Commerce to succeed Richard L. Bowditch. Owner of six wholesale groceries, a public warehouse and a 450-acre cattle farm near Roanoke, Va., Johnston has been an active member of the Chamber for 22 years and a business consultant to the RFC, the Navy, the OPA and the OEM. Johnston feels that there may be a slight increase in the number of small business failures, but he hopes that "we won't turn into a nation of economic hypochondriacs and go running to the Government for emergency injections all the time...
When Fair Dealer Chester Bowles, onetime ad-agency tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra
...After OPA ceilings went off, prices shot up from $12 to $20 a case in 1947, and to $24 a year later. Packers' costs climbed even faster, about 488% since 1940. Fishermen who got an average of 8½? apiece for their fish in 1940, raked in 50? in 1951. Pay rates in canneries rose nearly 80% an hour...