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...executive order setting it up was flown to Harry Truman's Florida playland last week with OWMR Boss John R. Steelman. When the President signed it, OPA's remaining 34,736 employes (peak, 63,428) and its controls over rent, rice and sugar would be absorbed by the newcomer...
...tough, energetic Jack Small was anxious to get moving (possibly to the board chairmanship of 20th Century-Fox), but felt there was still much he could do for the Government. Steelman's office agreed by suggesting that if Small were appointed acting head of ORP, the agency to end controls could get going promptly...
...Created a twelve-man Presidential Research Board, headed by OWMR Director John R. Steelman, to spur peacetime scientific development...
...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...
...cure the "controlled" leather shortage, OWMR Boss John R. Steelman announced that U.S. tanners would be permittee to buy hides in the world market at world prices (almost 90% above OPA ceilings) but they must still sell all products, except leather from imported raw calfskins, at ceiling prices. No tanners could afford to do this. Anyway, the U.S. had waited so long to make up its mind that other nations had bought up nearly all the hides there were...