Word: decontrolling
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...Decontrol Board is considering at the very moment this question-whether or not to reestablish price ceilings on such items as milk, meat, and grains. Chairman of the Board, Roy L. Thompson, has reported that to date he has received few letters from individuals favoring such control...
...knew where prices might go under the new law. Much depended on the three-man OPA Decontrol Board. It would be all-powerful in determining what commodities and goods would be under price ceilings. In choosing the Board the President was expected to follow a well-grooved pattern: one member to represent labor, one to be an industry-management spokesman, one to sit for the public. But the Board named by Harry Truman fell into no such groove. The three men nominated for the $12,000 jobs were...
...LELAND THOMPSON, 55, Mississippi-born. Chairman of the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Roy Thompson has been working in Farm Credit Administration agencies since 1933, but he is no crusader for Government controls. His aim as Chairman of the Decontrol Board: "Get things out from under price controls as quickly as possible; if we can get production going at its proper rate, competitive force can remove the necessity of Government control...
...Congress. On the evening of the fifth day, after a final session lasting nine hours and 40 minutes, a dog-tired Alben Barkley called in the press to announce a complex compromise agreeable to eleven of the 14 conferees. A three-man Decontrol Board, appointed by the President with Senate approval, would exercise top authority over prices. OPA, although extended until June 30, 1947, would be outranked by the Board. Major proposals...
...Decontrol Board would decide what food ceilings would be restored after...