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Krug had made a fast start. But his appointment merely intensified the fight over who will be U.S. power tsar. Fortnight ago FPC Chairman Leland Olds launched an ambitious plan (TIME, July 28) to make FPC (i.e., himself) the boss. Olds ran head-on into Secretary Ickes, the earlier claimant. Said Ickes of Olds's plan: "It does not suit this department at all . . . some recommendations were very
...combination looked like a powerful gang-up on Ickes. But Ickes last week had not begun to fight. Nobody was power tsar...
...this impasse, Oil Tsar Ickes gave his answer last week: he asked motorists in 16 Atlantic States voluntarily to cut gasoline consumption one-third. To see how voluntary reduction works, Ickes also asked 19 large oil retailers to compile weekly retail-sales reports. Hot-headed Harold Ickes will get even hotter if the figures show the noncompliance everyone expects. Probable upshot: gasoline ration cards (or a reasonable facsimile) by fall...
...bills. The meeting had not so decided, since both Ickes and the White House think Jesse Jones has too much patronage already. In undertaking to embellish the Administration program. Olds seemed to be undertaking something else: a race with his ex-sponsor Ickes for the job of U.S. energy tsar...
Left. By the late Walter Edmund O'Hara, Rhode Island's once-wealthy race-track tsar, who bet on the ponies himself: $193.86 in Rhode Island, an undetermined amount in Massachusetts...