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...Office for the Cessation of Rationing and Priorities-"OCRAP," for short. He was overruled. But there would be a catch-all agency to clean up the work left undone by the expiring wartime agencies, and its probable name would be the Office of Rents and Priorities. Phonetically, at least. ORP seemed as good a handle...
...tough, energetic Jack Small was anxious to get moving (possibly to the board chairmanship of 20th Century-Fox), but felt there was still much he could do for the Government. Steelman's office agreed by suggesting that if Small were appointed acting head of ORP, the agency to end controls could get going promptly...
Died. Dr. Lawrence Roland Sevier, 50, vice president of the Bank of Italy (California) and brother-in-law of famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bancitaly orp., Bank of Italy, etc.) ; in Los Angeles...