Word: bowleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowles got the job. He made enemies, but not nearly so many as testy Leon Henderson. He lost friends, but not nearly so many as Prentiss Brown. One of his most persistent foes, Nebraska's Republican Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, with whom he has had some bitter public debates...
Foods & Squeezes. Under President Truman's new wage-price policy, Chet Bowles will turn OPA over to Paul Porter, a longtime friend and admirer who will become the fourth price boss of World War II and the fifth in the nation's history. Moving up to the post...
His policies are already established. Wages will be permitted to rise, but Bowles insists that the 18½ pattern set in steel will not be the pattern for all. So will some ceiling prices rise-but as little as possible. For the most part, the wage increases will be squeezed...
If Bowles can get Congress to accept this plan for another year, cost of living items like food, clothing and rents will rise only slightly, or not at all.
At best, however carefully and sympathetically planned, price control would be in conflict with the traditional U.S. system. And many a businessman considers Chester Bowles far from sympathetic-possibly because, in his fight for the consumer's pocketbook, he has become the darling not only of the nation'...