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...pressure of price law amendments was heavy on just about everything else in the family budget. Last week OPA lifted the lid on galoshes, rubbers and sterling silver flatware; ceiling increases of 4.8% were authorized on children's tricycles, scooters, and wagons...
...third corner of the capital, labor began to build its fires. With one eye on the Decontrol Board hearings, 300 top C.I.O. leaders staged a strategy meeting, agreed to make a show of suffering patience before blowing the lid again on U.S. industry...
...little that seemed likely to relieve their supply worries, said the builders, he had done nothing at all to relieve their worries over rising costs. To protect themselves against contract squeezes (as well as to make more profit), builders almost unanimously clamored for a lifting of the $10,000 lid on veterans' housing. (Some had even gone on what amounted to a sit-down strike for a free market; new-building "starts" began to fall off in June...
Congress' inclination was to let 'er go and wipe out almost all controls. The people had screamed when the House emasculated OPA; but House members went home for recess and did not change their minds. An even sharper bill, taking the lid off almost everything, passed the Senate last week by an overwhelming majority...
...Banking & Currency Committee majority had done the job. Its bill abolished all ceilings on meat, livestock, dairy and poultry products, boosted the lid on clothing, household appliances, automobiles and farm machinery, and eased controls over restaurant meals and hotel rents...