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The most important independent administrative agency set up during WORLD WAR II was the Office of Price Administration (OPA). The agency began studying plans ... The Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 gave the OPA official status, with broad powers for price regulation and a price administrator to make the act effective.
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Before the passage of the Emergency Price Control Act, price control had largely consisted of OPACS and then OPA issuing price schedules with maximum prices and negotiating voluntary agreements with producers of major industrial commodities and goods.
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legacy.lclark.edu/~marty/price%20control.htm
legacy.lclark.edu/~marty/price%20control.htm
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Major mobilizations invariably bring substantial inflationary pressures which translate into rising price levels. An examination of U.S. history, for example, reveals that, during the War of 1812, ... Congress passed the Emergency Price Control Act, signed by the President on January 30, 1942. This Act continued the power...
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in investment.30 During World War II the Office of Price Administration .... as it was during 1944-45 under the Emergency Price Control Act. This ..... ever, prevent the district courts from passing upon questions of the con- ...
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In 1941, President Roosevelt created the Office of Price Administration (OPA). Congress gave credence to this new governmental agency by passing the Emergency Price Control Act in 1942. The director of the OPA was given the authority to determine the price of a product that he determined to be generally fair and equitable.
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www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Gerard0916.htm
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E. During WWII, high prices, labor shortages, encouraged more tractor purchases. ... Had less difficulty passing down narrow roads. ... D. Emergency Price Control Act in 1942 provided a ceiling on farm prices at 110% of parity.
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www.teach1.cses.vt.edu/Hist3124/ch7.html
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Different aspects of the general subject have been dealt with, but there is no equivalent of the present work, one that attempts to present an overview of the movement's world activities during that epoch.
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johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id759.html
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"World War II" magazine January 1999 issue has a 6 page article by a young writer Tracy Derks, "Costly Advance in the Phillippines, Taking Villa Verde Trail" US 32nd Infantry Division battled the Japanese for control of a 'goat path in the clouds' during the liberation of the Philippines.
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www.angelfire.com/hi/RedArrowDivision/ww2.html
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Robert Weir - an ex-pat living in Australia - and his sister, Jean Slater told me that their father, lieutenant-Colonel Robert Alexander Weir, was a GPO Assistant Controller during WWII doing spot-checks on telegraphic traffic, and was in the Home-Guard, being the Commanding Officer of either the 53rd or 59th Battalion.
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www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rwbarnes/defence/hg2.htm
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