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Those who have had business abroad (Herbert Lehman's OFRR, Nelson Rockefeller's OCIAA, Elmer Davis' OWI) have slowly, painfully learned that all foreign business must funnel through the State Department. The hard-to-handle exception was Henry Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare. When BEW was scrapped by Executive Order, Secretary Hull promptly stepped up and claimed the scrap pile...
...OWI's propagandists couldn't wait to get on the air with the news: Mussolini has fallen. They wanted to make a point: "The essential nature of the Fascist regime has not changed...
That anonymous OPA official who keeps thinking out loud gave both press and public another good scare last week. He thought there would certainly be a serious egg shortage, come December. Next day, OWI struggled to issue a soothing explanation: 1) civilians will get only a third as many storage eggs (one million cases) as they got last year, but the loss will be offset by a 13% rise in egg production; 2) more people are eating eggs these days and boosting the demand; 3) "this is just the sort of situation that gives rise to black markets...
Lift Your Heads (British Ministry of Information, OWI; TIME, July...
Farmland values have risen more sharply within the past year than for more than 20 years past. Most of the increase has occurred since last November. OWI, reporting this, said that things are not yet out of hand: despite the past year's overall jump of 9%, per-acre values are still just below the 1912-14 average. But the steepness of the rise is cause for alarm...