Word: colletion
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...Installed his old Missouri friend, Federal Judge John Caskie Collet, onetime Economic Stabilization Director, as a titleless teammate of OWMR Boss John R. Steelman...
Faced with this impasse, the Administration, at first divided on policy, was busy talking itself into a compromise. All week long Harry Truman conferred with OWMR Boss John Snyder and Stabilization Administrator John Caskie Collet, who leaned toward the theory of increased prices to get production going. Then the President summoned (from a Southern vacation) Price Boss Chester Bowles, who was determined to hold the line...
Thus, in effect, he had stood aside while Government and Big Steel battled out the price question. Five days before the White House conference, the Government gave way. Although Price Administrator Chester Bowles raised fierce objections, John Snyder and Economic Administrator John Caskie Collet agreed to about a $4-a-ton rise in steel prices. The best guess in Washington was that Phil Murray might eventually...
...waves were pushed higher by Snyder and Economic Stabilizer John Caskie Collet on the new price for steel (see Labor). Then Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson announced in Chicago that he favored an 18? increase in the price of butter. (Said Bowles: "OPA is vigorously opposed...
...year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...