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Vote tabulations on OPA, veterans housing, terminal leave pay, and other bills, are available at the table which will be operated from 10 to 2 o'clock daily...
...reason for the shortage, said the President, was the extraordinary slaughtering in OPA-less July and August to take advantage of zooming prices. "Many of these cattle would normally have been fed to heavier weights," continued ex-cattle feeder Truman, "and come to market during September and October instead of August. Whether price control had been restored or not the glut of meat in summer was bound to mean a shortage in the fall...
Nevada. Republican George W. Malone does much of his campaign touring by airplane, drops in on wool ranchers. The ranchers like him and they hate the OPA. But Representative Berkeley Lloyd Bunker rides Senator Pat McCarran's Democratic machine and is strong in the cities. Dopesters' odds: 8-to-5 on Berkeley Bunker...
...proposals for restoration of consumer rationing came from Mrs. Maurice Sagoff, chairman of the Massachusetts Consumers' Advisory Committee to the OPA, and from George C. Kern, a Portland, Maine, meat packer, and spokesman for the National Association of Indepent Meat Packers...
...could OPA hold down prices while wage stabilization went out the window. Zenith Radio's Eugene F. McDonald Jr. nutshelled this fallacy. Said he: "This raising.of prices and wages is like a ball game. First the people in the front row stand up so they can.see better. Then the second row stands up, then the next row and so on. Soon everybody is standing and nobody can see better...