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...Sears Roebuck catalogues that women seemed to be wearing daring and glamorous undercostumes during that unregimented postwar era. There were gay primary colors and the whole gamut of pastels. There were novel shapes and patterns. Lace had a place; there were ruffles and embroidery. But that was before the OPA...
...Call the OPA! In St. Joseph, Mo., the OPA rent-control office was 7½ months behind with its rent...
Controls kept coming off-margarine, mayonnaise, shortening and coffee. OPA Administrator Paul Porter said that he was preparing a big cut in his staff of 35,000, and that the whole decontrol program had been moved up two months, to Nov. 1. After the first of the year, price lids would remain on autos, building materials, refrigerators, furniture, sugar, basic clothing items, farm machinery and rents...
...last week, even Government bureaucrats were willing to admit that all of these secondary shortages were caused by the ramshackle structure of controls left by the slowly collapsing OPA. OPA could not be blamed for some of the basic shortages caused by 1) abnormal demand and 2) the worldwide shortage of certain raw materials, notably fats & oils for soap...
...cure the "controlled" leather shortage, OWMR Boss John R. Steelman announced that U.S. tanners would be permittee to buy hides in the world market at world prices (almost 90% above OPA ceilings) but they must still sell all products, except leather from imported raw calfskins, at ceiling prices. No tanners could afford to do this. Anyway, the U.S. had waited so long to make up its mind that other nations had bought up nearly all the hides there were...