Decision

With nearly 40% of all U.S. wholesale purchases taking place at prices under their OPS ceilings, Price Boss Ellis Arnall last week made a decision. Since the ceilings no longer meant anything, Arnall thought it might be just as well to take some of them off. He prepared, accordingly, orders "temporarily" suspending the ceilings on numerous items (hides, calfskins, tallow, lard, animal waste material, vegetable soap stock, crude cottonseed, soybean and corn oil, burlap, wool, alpaca, etc.).

Nevertheless, ex-Governor Arnall, who knows all the advantages of patronage, particularly in an election year, showed no signs of firing any of OPS's horde of 11,796 employees, even if many of them had little left to do. Arnall's office warned that prices might go creeping up again, so everybody would have to stand by ready to whack them if they got back to the level of the suspended ceilings.

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