Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, in effect, he had stood aside while Government and Big Steel battled out the price question. Five days before the White House conference, the Government gave way. Although Price Administrator Chester Bowles raised fierce objections, John Snyder and Economic Administrator John Caskie Collet agreed to about a $4-a-ton rise in steel prices. The best guess in Washington was that Phil Murray might eventually...
Reconversion Director John Snyder, a banker-minded man not given to flowery talk, leaned back in his chair one day last week and told a newsman a parable...
...John Snyder obviously meant his parable for his old adversary on price control, Price Boss Chester Bowles. For last week while Chet Bowles fought mightily to hold back the rising tide of prices, the hem of his bathrobe was already...
...waves were pushed higher by Snyder and Economic Stabilizer John Caskie Collet on the new price for steel (see Labor). Then Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson announced in Chicago that he favored an 18? increase in the price of butter. (Said Bowles: "OPA is vigorously opposed...
...Banker Snyder was telling a corrupted version of the old legend of King Canute (995-1035) who, to rebuke the flattery of his courtiers, showed them that the advancing tide paid no heed to his commands...