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Truth was that the President had finally bent a sympathetic ear, two years late, to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch's idea of an overall freezing of wage levels, profit levels, price levels. Mr. Roosevelt talked it over with his Congressional leaders, with his family at the White House, with Price Boss Leon Henderson. Then he hinted at it to the press, with an ear cocked for the national reaction...
...WPBoss Donald Nelson finally announced the establishment of 24 industry committees, designed to make each industry's gears mesh with the war effort, picked 24 industry chiefs. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch and many other experts had urged this for nearly two years...
...drawer mining engineer whose work has taken him to most of the strange, out-of-the-way places which are today's battlefronts. Melancholy, laconic Engineer Searls, who deceptively resembles ineffectual Comedian Victor Moore, was recommended for a defense job by Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch. He began building ammunition plants for the British Purchasing Commission, switched to Army Ordnance. When he began, Searls knew nothing about ammunition except that it was supposed to explode. Now he knows so much that the Army refused to give him up to Nelson, insisted that he do both jobs...
...Most of Baruch's World War I powers...
...More power than Baruch ever...