Word: rea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Curb Exchange last week lost the first paid president it ever had. It will not get another-at least not for a good long while. Main reason (outside of "economy"'): burly, eupeptic Banker George Peters Rea, 47, has done such a good job that there is virtually no need for a full-time successor, unless & until the biggest job of all-more business-is licked. And it takes more than a paid president to increase trading in stocks & bonds...
When George Rea left the presidency of the Bishop National Bank of Honolulu four years ago to head the Curb, business was terrible and so was the financial condition of the Curb. As he leaves, business is worse (59,600 shares a day v. 130,000 in the first half of 1939), but the Curb as an institution is now eminently solvent, with enough cash to cover its $730,000 mortgage. Annual expenses have been pared more than $400,000. Last year the Curb earned $57,311 before depreciation, v. a $42,285 loss for the Big Board...
...more: BAE, BLS, DPI, ECC, EHFA, EIB, FCIC, FDA, NIC, NPPC, OADR, OGF, OCR, OLLA, OSRD, SCS, SSB, SSS, USSS, USES, USIS. Hardly a man was now alive who knows or needs to know most of them. If he did, he could not find them. They were moving: REA was on its way to St. Louis, one of 14 peacetime bureaus which had moved or were moving to make more Washington room for war agencies. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is now in Philadelphia, the Patent Office in Richmond. To Kansas City will soon go FCA (Farm Credit Administration...
...Washington, to which stream some 6,000 war workers a month, were ordered 10,000 Federal employes in twelve agencies, which must be relocated in New York City (Patent Office), Philadelphia (SEC), Chicago (Railroad Retirement Board), St. Louis (FSA, REA), and Pittsburgh (Labor Department's Wage & Hour Division). Other shifts will follow...
...final turning point came six weeks ago when Publisher Pope put his papers in the hands of the high-powered public-relations firm of Institute of Public Relations, Inc. Soon to a Montana internment camp went Il Progresso's No. 1 reporter Gene Rea, reported in a feature article that Italian prisoners were mostly happy, excellently treated. Other similar stories followed...