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...rumbling organ voice, he promised Farmers Union's support for the President's anti-inflation program. He insisted that necessary wartime food production can come only from the individual farmer, with emphasis away from wheat and one-crop products-to hell, he said, with bigger AAA payments for farmers who do not produce...
...Midwestern farm bloc to keep up the price of grain, needed for Vermont dairy farms. Workers mumbled at his Red-baiting, labor-hating speeches. Still others decried his lack of taste: he once remarked it was good the Dionne quintuplets did not live in the U.S., for the AAA would rule that two should be plowed under. But hardly anyone ever challenged Charles Plumley at the polls; and Vermont always re-elected...
...steel pinch is tighter than ever. As its solution of the problem, WPB gravely issued a flock of super-priority ratings (like AAA, AA-1, AA-2) to some former holders of the highly prized Aia. Results are fantastic. Machine-tool builders, for example, cannot even wangle a promise of delivery on their A-1-a orders...
...there were two strong indications that neither of these central problems had yet been solved: 1) Don Nelson was reported to have asked the President to choose between him and the armed forces as the final authority over raw materials flow; 2) WPB pushed two new high-preference ratings (AAA and AA-1) into the bottlenecked top of its priorities alphabet. Including AA-2, there are now three emergency-preference categories ahead of the highest priority rating...
...vacant long. Into it the President lifted smart, big-eared, young (32) Abe Fortas, Memphis-born director of the Interior Department's power division. For Mr. Fortas it was a reward: a Yale Law School graduate, he has long and faithfully, often skillfully, served the New Deal-on AAA, SEC, PWA, as general counsel to the Bituminous Coal Commission, as bat boy on the Corcoran-Cohen team. Mr. Ickes will not find any difficulty in snuggling black-haired, esthetic-looking Mr. Fortas under his wing. He has long been in close contact with him in shaping Federal power policies...