At war's end, how soon can U.S. industry be freed of rigid Government controls—and how much of it can be freed? On this important subject, the U.S. last week heard two important debaters: OPA Boss Chester Bowles and Dr. Williard H. Dow, white-haired, scholarly president of Michigan's Dow Chemical Co.
Once a successful advertising man, the jut-jawed, smooth-talking head of OPA shocked many a U.S. businessman by asserting in a speech, at Yale University: "The role of government must be greatly reduced after the war. . . . But . . . there is far too easy an assumption on the...