Word: decontrolled
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...National Home and Property Owners' Foundation may be shown to the home-hungry, inflation-ridden citizen after January 3. These and similar groups are pressing for at least a fifteen per cent rise in all rents. If the public remains as indifferent to their unpublicized machinations in Washington, complete decontrol in this field will...
...Then the Office of Defense Transportation ordered a 25% reduction in coal-powered passenger service. There was an overall 37-day supply on hand. Railroads had a 30-day supply, but steel mills, with only a 14-day stock, would feel the pinch almost immediately. At a time when decontrol had just been put in operation, a coal strike would cause havoc...
What would decontrol do in the nation's most pressing shortage and biggest black market-housing? It would probably be impossible to maintain the $10,000 sales price ceiling on new houses-the nub of Wilson Wyatt's program for veterans' housing. Instead, the Housing Authority's emphasis might be put on incentives to construct low-rental units...
...uproar, the exchanges opened again. To everyone's relief, cotton started up again as manufacturers, buoyed by prospects of decontrol, bought heavily. OPA gave support to their confidence by taking off its 120-day rule. There were more gladsome rumors that cotton might soon be decontrolled completely at the manufacturing level...
Controls kept coming off-margarine, mayonnaise, shortening and coffee. OPA Administrator Paul Porter said that he was preparing a big cut in his staff of 35,000, and that the whole decontrol program had been moved up two months, to Nov. 1. After the first of the year, price lids would remain on autos, building materials, refrigerators, furniture, sugar, basic clothing items, farm machinery and rents...