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...with an A.B. from Vanderbilt, Ed Rand went to work in his father's factory sorting leather; two years later he became a leather buyer. After a wartime hitch with OPA, WPB and SPAB, where he had charge of selling millions of surplus Army shoes, Rand went back to International as boss of production, merchandising and distribution, was made a vice president in 1947. The company he went back to had mushroomed from one plant in 1898 to 55 factories, eight tanneries, a rubber plant and a cotton mill, with 35,000 employees and 12,000 stockholders. International Shoe...
...into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief of the OPA...
...expressed dissatisfaction with the old parity 1909-14 base period. The bill provided a new parity formula, based on a time of even greater farm prosperity-the past ten years. To make this even more attractive, the concocters provided that federal wartime subsidies (paid to keep consumer prices below OPA ceilings) should also be tossed in the weighing pan, together with the cost of hired farm labor. This parity formula would give better prices to livestock and tobacco raisers. But it might not work for everything. So Congress thoughtfully provided that for the next four years, if the old formula...
Specifically, Butler mentioned ex-CAB Chairman James Landis, ex-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, ex-OPA Boss Paul Porter and ex-Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas. He called them "the real influence men ... the professional bleeding hearts of the New Deal who have been converted to the private enterprise system by ... fat legal fees." Butler wanted to outlaw all such representation for at least two years after officials left federal service...
...retail meat prices, which had edged up during the winter decline in slaughtering, were coming down again. Pork packers were glum because of a poor Easter trade; a big New York pork plant closed last week, and hog prices sank to their lowest level ($19.50 per 100 Ibs.) since OPA's end. Because of abundant grain for feeding, this year's beef was also coming down, and was a better grade than last year's. At $24.60 per 100 Ibs., good steers were $1.50 below a month ago. Even lamb, forced to an alltime high partly...