Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggestion of how to get some meat on U.S. tables. Boldly, Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson proposed that the Government use its war powers to rustle the ranges, buy meat on the hoof (at over-ceiling prices, if necessary), then allocate the animals to legitimate slaughterhouses...
...beat the bushes for meat," cried Clint Anderson. "The time has passed when we can fool around with the OPA and price controls. Once the meat pipelines are filled, I can then declare that meat is no longer in short supply and we can have the controls taken off and meat will continue to flow into the channels of trade. That's the quick and reasonable way to end the meat crisis, and I'm confident that that's what will happen...
...effect, Anderson's plan substituted government premiums for the extra dollars many farmers now get from the black market. Nobody had yet figured out what the premiums might cost. Whatever the merits or demerits of Anderson's plan in its actual operation, he had a precedent and a cogent argument...
When administrative Washington heard Secretary Anderson's proposal, it was as though a glob of grease had been thrown on a red-hot pan. OPA Boss Paul Porter sizzled loudest. Getting steaks next week, said he, was less important than achieving stability of the economy. He appealed for "public understanding and support of price control,"* said that "the danger of losing the battle against inflation" had never been more serious...
...adopt the Anderson plan, Harry Truman-who had come out for continued controls-would have to reverse himself again, and he was probably tired of doing that. But the plan was the only one around that promised some meat on voters' tables...