Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right price, according to the Cahaly Brothers, was, is, and will be the OPA rate. While that government agency was gasping its dying breath this summer, the shop contained a huge sign proclaiming: "OPA Regulations are still observed in this store--Cahaly." Now, even as Paul porter cleans out his Washington desk and prepares to transfer the bureau to the textbooks, the sign still remains amid the crepe-paper decor of a dusty window display...
...this basis, Reade has already got New Yorkers, including John Hay Whitney, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Cole Porter, to subscribe from $62.40 to $93.60 each for year-round reservations. For their money, they will be able to see movies (but not first-run ones) without having to wait in line.* The fancy prices also cover the cost of 1) roomy love seats, 2) hearing aids, 3) telephone service direct to seats, 4) art exhibits, 5) free coffee and French cookies in a mirror-lined lounge equipped with backgammon tables and a television set, 6) free cosmetics in the champagne-colored ladies...
Controls kept coming off-margarine, mayonnaise, shortening and coffee. OPA Administrator Paul Porter said that he was preparing a big cut in his staff of 35,000, and that the whole decontrol program had been moved up two months, to Nov. 1. After the first of the year, price lids would remain on autos, building materials, refrigerators, furniture, sugar, basic clothing items, farm machinery and rents...
...cabinet room of the White House he faced them, nine whom he could trust: his special counsel Clark Clifford, Postmaster General Bob Hannegan, Attorney General Tom Clark, OPA Boss Paul Porter, Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, Under Secretary of the Treasury O. Max Gardner, OWMR Boss John Steelman, Agriculture's Robert H. Shields, OPA's Richard Field...
...Bernard Baruch. 4. Paul Porter...