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...called Braintrusters, or the Janizariat. To tackle the great problem of his first term, Depression, the President had a powerful braintrust: Raymond Moley, Donald Richberg, General Hugh S. Johnson, George Peek, Rexford Tugwell-all now off the scene. The so-called Second New Deal-Robert Jackson, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, William Douglas. Corcoran, Cohen-are separately employed to the point of scatteration...
Until last week, World War IPs priorities operations had been divided and subdivided. In the Office of Production Management, priorities were theoretically managed by Edward P. Stettinius as priorities chief in charge of raw materials and commodity production; and certainly affected by Donald M. Nelson as procurement chief; Leon Henderson through price controls; John D. Biggers through processing Awhile the Interstate Commerce and Maritime Commissions supervised delivery priorities; the Bituminous Coal Division, Federal Trade and Federal Power Commissions all had dabbling hands...
What happens to prices when the President's 2,000,000-ton shipping pool curtails coastwise and intercoastal shipping, adding costly rail rates to goods which now move cheaply by sea? This problem landed on the desk of OPACS Chief Leon Henderson (see p. 16) last week, and it looked as though busy Leon might have some answers ready...
Some price hikes probably are inevitable, but Henderson thinks many of them can be prevented. For one thing, he knows the existing freight-rate structure bears no systematic relationship to railroad costs. He also knows that more than half the increased traffic now in sight would move from south to north and from west to east-the directions in which the costly movement of empty freight cars is now heaviest. Meanwhile the railroads have been experimenting with low rates for trainload hauls. Moreover, railroad net operating income has risen sharply this year. If Henderson is to prevent price increases...
Prices are not the only problem raised for Henderson by the President's shipping pool. As combination price and supply commissioner, Henderson is the New Deal official closest to the job of finding sufficient transportation for all the freight diverted from canal to roadbed. The New Deal has long regarded rail capacity as a potential bottleneck...