Word: decontrolling
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...third corner of the capital, labor began to build its fires. With one eye on the Decontrol Board hearings, 300 top C.I.O. leaders staged a strategy meeting, agreed to make a show of suffering patience before blowing the lid again on U.S. industry...
WASHINGTON-Price increases on a wide variety of consumer goods ranging from mechanical refrigerators to canned fruits were authorized by OPA tonight as the agency awaited final word from the decontrol board on its future food price policies...
...price boosts, all passed on to the consumer, covered products outside the scope of President Truman's decontrol board, which must decide by tomorrow night whether controls are to be restored on meat, grain and dairy products, soy beans and cottonseed...
...only thing the tanners could do was hotfoot it for Washington. There, joined by shoe manufacturers, they clamored for 1) complete decontrol of hides and leathers, or 2) hefty price increases...
With an air of judicial aloofness and a deep sense of political risk, the new high court of price regulation this week took up its rule. If the three-man Price Decontrol Board did nothing before August 21, price ceilings would go back on grain, meat, dairy products, cottonseed and soybeans. When the doors opened into the high-ceilinged marble of the Senate Caucus Room for the first public hearing, a flood of businessmen flowed through. Most of them argued that it would be economic folly to sit tight, i.e., let ceilings go back...