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...smokescreen of words thrown out by the highly-geared propaganda agency of the National Association of Manufacturers. Higher prices will not cure the labor and material shortages that set the limits of production today. Only reconversion time and labor-management peace can bring greater production. It was not the OPA, nor is it the Wagner Act, which is in need of revision. The revision of statutes most necessary now are revisions based on the recognition that millions of American families do not have a large enough annual income for a decent standard of living. To say nothing of buying...
Listless. In Chicago, a South Side butcher asked OPA for a ceiling-price list, admitting he had nothing to sell but would like something to read...
...Home. The distress went deep. Public institutions, many of which had been on short rations to conserve their meat, were now down to the end of supplies. Hospitals, unable to give their patients proper diets (two Boston hospitals began to serve horse meat), pleaded with Washington and local OPA offices for help. They got a promise of it - a new OPA formula by which suppliers are required to furnish the same percentages of meat to hospitals and other institutions as they did in the same period of 1944. If the suppliers failed to meet the quotas, they would be subject...
...nothing on top of them. Many an animal sent for slaughter bypassed the major slaughter points at Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago, traveled on to local slaughterers in the East. In New York City, where at one time last week nine out of ten butcher shops were closed, OPA agents estimated that one in five of those doing any business was doing it at over-ceiling prices...
...people were getting sore. Butchers who had once been mean to customers now complained that customers were mean to them. OPA, which had been the lamented darling of many housewives when meat was plentiful but high in price, was now blamed by almost everybody for the famine. Washington dopesters figured that the wobbly OPA was just about ripe for a knockout punch...