Word: brannans
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Bureaucratic Battle. This new agency will be the nearest thing to the old WPB -but still only a distant cousin, since many of the WPB powers will be spread among other departments. The Agriculture Department's Charles Brannan, for example, will control production of food, agricultural equipment, cotton, wool and other textiles. Interior's Oscar Chapman will regulate the production and distribution of electric power, gas, petroleum, coal and other minerals. Wage controls will probably be the special province of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...
...Controls. There were other-and bigger-conflicts ahead. What would happen if Brannan wanted steel for farm machinery and the Munitions Board wanted the same steel for tanks? Or if Interior's Chapman refused to divert electric power to make aluminum Sawyer wanted? Under the law, the National Security Resources Board has power to referee interdepartmental squabbles, and NSRB Chairman Stuart Symington in effect speaks with the voice of the President. But since Cabinet members have the right of appeal from his orders, it seemed likely that most critical squabbles would land right in the lap of the President...
...Hail to the Chief." There were the usual brave boasts from the professionals. Behind them lay unspoken doubts and abandoned platforms. No longer would the Democrats sing of the Brannan Plan and Fair Deal benefits; no longer would the Republicans stress the evils of creeping socialism and deficit spending...
...Brannan needs congressional permission to sell products below 105% of support prices (plus carrying charges) or below the going market prices, whichever are higher. But cotton, for example, is selling so far above supports that the Commodity Credit Corp. can dump it without the political blessing of Congress...
Last week, Secretary Brannan did move fast to ward off one possible shortage: for $64,560,000, he bought Cuba's surplus sugar stock (600,000 tons), began negotiations for 250,000 tons more from other producers. This will boost the U.S. sugar supply to a new high of 8,700,000 tons, far more than normal annual consumption...