INDUSTRY: Sock on the Nose

INDUSTRY

"Sock on the Nose"

"I'm here to button this thing up," barked National Recovery Administrator Johnson one day last week as he hopped out of an Army plane at Detroit. Awaiting him at General Motors Building was a deadlocked board of directors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Two hours later General Johnson marched out of the board room, his pocket bulging with a trade code for the automobile industry which was expected to put 60,000 additional men to work. "That's what I came for and that's what I got." said...

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