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Publisher Sherman H. Bowles (cousin of ex-OPA Boss Chester), whose four Springfield, Mass., newspapers have been on strike since last fall, crashed a picket line to deliver copies of his strike-crippled Daily News, wound up in police court. Publisher Bowles had the enterprise to pilot a delivery truck himself, lacked the foresight to carry a driver's license. Fine...
Consumer industries, notably those making food and household products, were not far behind the basic producers. In the last quarter many cashed in heavily on OPA's death. Typical was Procter & Gamble: for the six months ending December 31 it netted $16,300,341 v. $9,456,033 in the same period of 1945. (And P. & G. had laid aside $14,500,000 to take care of any inventory loss if prices dropped...
...major commodities, only heavy metals went up. Even there the trend was mixed. By week's end, the Dow-Jones Commodity futures index was down 2.02 points to 117.56, about the same level as in November just before commodity futures joined the general price rise as OPA controls went off. It would take time for the lowered commodity prices to affect most retail prices. But many a retailer was hastening to clear his shelves of high-priced goods...
...Communism, the N.Y. Council of C.I.O., the first NLRB, OPA, socialized medicine, universal military training, ¶ The Fair Employment Practice Commission. ("Racial discrimination is a serious problem . . . but force is not the answer...
...OPA was revived next month, but the only thing proved was that no one believed in ghosts. Plenty changed into shortages again until the ghost was finally laid-along with most other wartime controls-in December...