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Once a successful advertising man, the jut-jawed, smooth-talking head of OPA shocked many a U.S. businessman by asserting in a speech, at Yale University: "The role of government must be greatly reduced after the war. . . . But . . . there is far too easy an assumption on the part of many that we have only to strip off controls and we'll go right back to all-out peacetime operations without a hitch. There are two things wrong with that view. It won't be easy-and we can't go back...
...necessarily follow that we will have plenty later." Easygoing Secretary of Agriculture Wickard broadcast a warning that, despite recent point reductions on canned vegetables, the efforts of spare-time gardeners are still essential. (Last year 42% of the nation's vegetables were grown in Victory gardens.) Concerning meat, jut-jawed Chet Bowles flirted with a prediction: if this year's crops of livestock feed are only normal, meat rationing on the old basis, perhaps slightly less severe, will return by next winter. Should the feed crops fail, the meat shortages next winter may be "more acute," rationing stricter...
...Baby. Two years ago Mouat was a wooded mountainside, green with Douglas fir and jack pine. Its population consisted of jut-jawed old Prospector Bill Mouat and his wife. Then the U.S., needing chrome sorely, found it at Mouat. Japs had choked off the chrome supply from the Philippines; the Nazis blocked the Mediterranean route from Turkey, Nazi subs imperiled shipping from South Africa. The Government moved in with old Prospector Bill...
...grey -haired, jut-jawed Alvin George Brush sometimes feels like the old-woman-in-the-shoe. As board chairman of American Home Products Corp., he runs one of the biggest and the fastest-growing drug, food and household goods companies in the U.S. Its 5,000 products range from auto paint to penicillin...
...Things to All Senators. Said Minnesota's serious, jut-jawed Joe Ball: "The Resolution merely would place the Senate on record as having caught up to the will of the American people...