All week long there came hints and headlines about the "collapse" of the Office of Price Administration. No less than seven Congressional committees listened to big business, little business, farmers and labor bigwigs talk about "foolish fumblers" and "Malice in OPAland." Columnists gabbed that OPA's functions might be parceled out to the other czars —food prices and rationing to Chester Davis, oil prices and rationing to Harold Ickes, etc.
> Labor unanimously contended that OPA's effort to roll back the prices of meat, coffee and butter to the September 1942 level was not...
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