Word: decontrol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Majority Leader McCormack had loyally led the Administration's fights for price control, but these pitiful cries were too much for him. Last week he demanded a 60-day suspension of meat price ceilings in order to get his people meat. Sixty days would give the Price Decontrol Board time to study the situation, he said. It would also carry the Democrats comfortably past the election...
Meatless citizens would mean voteless candidates. Shamelessly they passed a resolution directing Hannegan to confer with the Decontrol Board-which is supposed to be free of politics. The resolution did not state flatly that they were for McCormack's 60-day suspension, but that was the majority sentiment. They telephoned the White House and told a presidential aide about...
...best they could think of was to send word around the wards and back rooms: don't give up hope. In spite of Harry Truman's firm stand against decontrol, they hoped there would be some meat to nourish voters for that journey to the polls...
...shortage would soon be felt in France and Belgium, which had been the largest buyers. But the millions of pounds normally sent overseas would ease the U.S. situation hardly at all. Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson predicted that the shortage might be worse next spring. The Price Decontrol Board refused to restore ceilings on milk, butter, cheese, and other dairy products -as it had on meats...
...last week everybody had taken a crack at OPA. Congress had worn it down, making price boosts to jibe with a new set of rules. Ceilings on grain and dairy products had been knocked over the fence in the Price Decontrol Board's big inning. Last week it was the Department of Agriculture's turn to humble Washington's once-powerful price fixers...