Stepchild. From now on the sale of surplus consumer goods will be made through the War Assets Corp., a Reconstruction Finance Corp. subsidiary. The shift, from the Department of Commerce, was made at the request of Henry Agard Wallace. Thus he neatly sidestepped the storm over bungling in the disposal of surplus property due chiefly to inept legislation.
Rich Harvest. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated that the farmer's cash income from marketings for 1945 will reach a dazzling $20.4 billion v. 1939's $8 billion. But nobody expected the Farm Bloc to agree that food subsidies ($437 million the first half...
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