Word: fea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Treasury Department was glumly trying to sell 76,712 discarded caps (at $2.20 each), had shown them to milliners, UNRRA and FEA officials, buyers for prisons. Sales to date...
...package are powers over production, priorities, allocation, exports & imports, transportation. It is a sort of combination WPB-OPA-FEA-ODT-WMC, responsible solely to Chiang Kai-shek as the all-powerful President of the Executive Yuan and chairman of the National Military Council...
...FEA men got their first sore sample of Pacific plowing on Efate, in the New Hebrides, where they planted their first seed. Thick virgin underbrush had to be uprooted, coral sand scraped away. But with the help of French prison labor, they were soon producing. Last Christmas the boys had 15,000 ears of sweet corn...
Fortnight ago it had become apparent that the Government's most active member of this team will be the Foreign Economic Administration. Last week Oscar Cox, FEA's general counsel, was still studying a letter drafted in the White House. The letter, from Mr. Roosevelt to FEA's boss. Leo Crowley, outlined the postwar duties of FEA. Cox, 38, whose hobby is mountain climbing, has a nimble and imaginative legally trained mind (M.I.T. and Yale Law School), which enables him to have a finger in every Washington pie. He wrote the first draft of the Lend-Lease...
...from its birth FEA's history has been one of dictation, though necessarily so because of its war function. It has dictated to private traders when & where they may ship their goods; it buys and stockpiles the millions of tons of strategic raw materials needed by the United Nations. This has given rise to some fears among private traders that FEA will not hurriedly cease its dictation. On this, the President wrote : "The Government should assist to the extent necessary to achieve this objective by returning commerce to private lanes as rapidly as possible." This indefinite promise alone stands...