Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danger of runaway inflation, they said to an anxious and puzzled nation, would be over by June 1947. Meanwhile, all that was needed was a little more reconversion patchwork. They got help from some Congressmen. The House will begin consideration of a bill to extend Paul Porter's OPA for another year, and authorize $2 billion for consumer subsidies. The Senate gave Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt $600 million to pass out in premiums for building materials...
Near the village of Neuhaus, Germany, exActress Emmy Sonnemann Göring lived in a three-room porter's lodge with her seven-year-old daughter Edda. Once Mrs. Göring had been Germany's most spectacularly wealthy woman; now she said tearfully: "I don't know what will become of Edda and me. But there is no use discussing that. What matters is that I haven't the companionship of my husband...
Foods & Squeezes. Under President Truman's new wage-price policy, Chet Bowles will turn OPA over to Paul Porter, a longtime friend and admirer who will become the fourth price boss of World War II and the fifth in the nation's history. Moving up to the post of Economic Stabilizer, Bowles will still fight OPA's battle for ceilings, will have additional power over wages and allocations...
...face it. Reports were that he decided to cut Snyder down a little, lift Bowles to a bigger, better job, settle the steel strike with a price increase of around $5 a ton, give Bowles full authority to hold the line in the future. Another report: Paul Porter, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) and genial Kentuckian who is now chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, would succeed Chet Bowles as administrator...
...meeting, which has the approval of the Counsellor for Veterans' Office, are being arranged by a committee under the chairmanship of John C. Harper '46. Other members are Matthew J. Cullen '45, Robert Palmer NROTC, Paul Hellmuth 2L, Irving Kent 2L, John Mahoney 3L, Richard Weissman 2L, and Charles Porter 2L. Replies are expected from national headquarters of the various groups within the next two weeks, and further plans will be announced as they are formulated...