Word: allocatees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Textiles. The long awaited orders to roll back textile prices 6 or 7%, and to allocate cloth to producers of low-priced goods, was ready for enforcement. The more obstreperous groups in the textile industry greeted the order with cat calls, others met it with stony silence.
On this dogma, said Minister Lacoste, a new system was being built. Deep-rooted French individual enterprise would be largely uprooted. All branches of industrial and food production-coal, steel, textiles, etc.-would operate under the Government's "provisional commissioners." "Sixty such officials, responsible to the Ministry of Production...
But this time, OPA is backed by WPB, whose potent weapon is its power to allocate cloth. WPB is ready to divert materials to manufacturers who will agree to turn out cheap clothing. They have already allocated 40,000,000 yards to make the infants' and children's...
As a way out, he recommended: 1) all foreign-trade agreements of U.S. companies which restrict production or allocate markets should be filed with the Government; 2) the Government should have power to nullify specific agreements. To ward off the threat of antitrust prosecution, he would have the antitrust acts...
After three drudging weeks, and in spite of squabblings, most major policies and procedures had been argued over, fought over-and mostly solved: > Director General Lehman had won his right to allocate materials to countries most in need, regardless of their ability or inability to pay.