INDUSTRY: In a Goldfish Bowl

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Most of last week, Industrial Recovery Administration Administrator General Hugh Samuel Johnso, U. S. A. retired, was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts in a little cubicle on the third floor of Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman...

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