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...there is Goodbye Gold (to the tune of Deck the Halls): "Flood the world with paper dollars, Fa la la la la, la la la la; Pay no mind to Frenchmen's hollers, Fa la la la la, la la la la." Other titles: God Rest Ye, Jackson Grayson and Should Milton Friedman Be Forgot...
...sometime plantation boss, Navy officer, newspaper reporter, FBI agent, import-export manager and Texas-based business-school dean flew into Washington to take on a new job. He became the U.S. price czar. C. (for Charles) Jackson Grayson Jr. found that the seven-member Price Commission he was to head had no staff, no permanent office and no secretaries; he had to ring up the Civil Service Commission in Washington to ask how to go about hiring. It was a situation suited to the take-charge spirit of 48-year-old Jack Grayson, who constantly advises associates that "someone...
With little help from the Administration, which is maintaining a hands-off attitude, Grayson's commission has moderated pricing policies in three basic industries: autos, steel and coal. The commission's basic rule is that prices may be increased only to reflect added costs, minus any gains in workers' productivity-and then only if the price boosts do not fatten profit margins. Grayson has been flexible in applying this standard. Last week he allowed U.S. Steel an average price increase of 3.6%, in return for a promise that the company would not try to raise prices again...
...start of the second half, Wilkinson directed the Crimson to a 22-point lead, 69-47. But then the Crusaders rallied with Stan Grayson leading the way. Grayson finished the game with 24 points, hitting ten-of-15 from the floor...
...increase their fast-rising export shipments, which are not subject to price controls. Coal users already protest that the companies are exporting too much, and that the result could be a dangerous winter shortage of fuel and electric power. Nevertheless, like Horatio at the bridge, Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson Jr. has vowed that employers will not be allowed automatically to pass along exorbitant wage hikes to their customers. In effect, the Price Commission has been forced into serving as the Pay Board's monitor...