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...enemies, who abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view. As boss of RFC, the Department of Commerce, a dozen other related and unrelated New Deal agencies, he saved many a bank, railroad and factory from the financial junk heap, made money for the Government...
...standbys like AAA, CCC. FBI, NYA, RFC, SEC and TVA had been around so long that they were now more or less familiar. Anyone who didn't know these initials was out of luck. And knowing them now was no good: most had been superseded by weird new wartime initials. For instance: FCC is less important than DCB (Defense Communications Board), and NLRB plays second fiddle to NWLB (National War Labor Board...
...Defense Plant Corporation) is a war branch of Jesse Jones's RFC, with power to build, buy and sell plants, operate them if necessary; DSC (Defense Supplies Corporation), MRC (Metals Reserve Company), RRC (Rubber Reserve Company) are RFC subsidiaries, concerned with stocks of war materials...
...general counsel, studious, bespectacled William Radner, 34, former RFC attorney who amazed his colleagues by working 18 hours a day, became secretary of the Matson Line, is now on leave of absence...
...Many a short or shallow vein of ore lies unused for lack of capital. Ickes wants authority to certify borrowers to the RFC to exploit uneconomic reserves of metals WPB needs. If private enterprises are unwilling to accept such loans, the Secretary contemplates (without, he says, enthusiasm) direct exploitation by the Government...