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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-016
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Agriculture draft bill, later enrolled as S.J. Res. 71, to establish a National Commission on Food Marketing to study the food industry from the producer to the consumer.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF35-023
This folder contains memoranda and tables compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning metals. Most items pertain to copper prices and production, but there is also information on silver, tin, lead, and zinc.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF35-018
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the machine tool industry. Items include a speech by Burnham Finney, editor in chief of American Machinist magazine.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF32-017
This folder contains correspondence between Walter W. Heller and representatives of the Ford Motor Company. There is also an enclosed memorandum from Ford on wage and fringe benefit settlement patterns in the auto industry during the post-World War II period.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF22-007
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Department of Commerce. Types of material include letters, memoranda, reports, publications, press releases, and data charts. Correspondents include Luther H. Hodges (Secretary of Commerce), Clarence D. Martin, Jr. (Under Secretary for Transportation), George Jaszi (director of the Office of Business Economics), James G. Morton (special assistant to the Secretary), Richard H. Holton (Assistant Secretary of Commerce), and Edward Gudeman (Under Secretary of Commerce). The file also contains select copies of Hodges' Congressional testimony and press conferences, and a directory of industry and trade specialists in the Business and Defense Services Administration, within the Department of Commerce.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF22-006
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Department of Commerce. Types of material include letters, memoranda, reports, publications, press releases, and data charts. Correspondents include Luther H. Hodges (Secretary of Commerce), Clarence D. Martin, Jr. (Under Secretary for Transportation), George Jaszi (director of the Office of Business Economics), James G. Morton (special assistant to the Secretary), and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (Under Secretary of Commerce). The file also contains the Department of Commerce proposed legislative program for the 89th Congress, 1st Session; a preliminary draft report on the airline subsidy reduction program; an issue of Current Population Reports on consumer income, published by the Bureau of the Census; a Report to Congress on Unauthorized Assistance to Seemingly Nondepressed Areas Under the Public Works Acceleration Act and the Area Redevelopment Act, by the U.S. Comptroller General; and information on a State Science and Technology Conference in Washington, D.C. (3-4 February 1964).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF20-001
This folder contains memoranda, notes, reports, news clippings, and correspondence pertaining to labor disputes and price increases in the steel industry and the government's response. The situation was informally referred to as the "steel crisis." Although detailed, much of the information is in draft form and there are many gaps. Most of the notes are in Heller's handwriting. The file includes material for a meeting with the President and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz regarding steel prices (21 May 1963), and for another meeting just with Secretary Wirtz (14 May 1963). Other documents include compiled statistics related to the steel industry as of April 1963 and October 1963, and a background paper on how the national economy is affected by steel prices. Note that this material originally constituted Series 4, but upon further review it has been moved to Series 5. Subject Files.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF26-010
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the automobile industry. Items include notes, news articles, and a chart comparing wages in the automobile and steel industries.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF26-009
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the automobile industry. Types of items include memoranda, news articles, notes, and charts. The material pertains to union contract negotiations at the major automakers, and the possibility of automobile price increases. There is also a paper titled "The Possibility of Price Reductions in Automobiles" (June 1964).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF26-008
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning labor issues in the automobile industry. Types of items include memoranda, press releases, news articles, and notes. The main topics are how union contract settlements may affect automobile prices and the economy overall, and the impact of a strike at General Motors.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF31-014
This folder contains memoranda and correspondence compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the drug industry. Most items pertain to bills and legislation affecting the drug industry and drug prices.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-025
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on S. 774 and similar bills providing for quality and price stabilization.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF39-001
This folder contains general correspondence between Walter W. Heller and representatives of the Rand Corporation. There is also one paper titled "Economic Growth and Foreign Aid: A Proposal Concerning the Export of Industrial Plants" by Frederick T. Moore.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-006
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller on productivity topics in general, such as output per man-hour in manufacturing. Types of items include memoranda, correspondence, and news articles. A portion of the material relates to confusion over conflicting productivity data released by various government agencies.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF47-002
This folder contains material pertaining to requests for copies of a study on the steel industry by the Council of Economic Advisers, which was titled "Employment Costs and Profits in the Steel Industry After the October 1 Wage Increase." The study was done at the behest of Senator Albert Gore and also included a compilation of statistics on the iron and steel industry from 1947 to 1961.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-030
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Commerce draft bill to provide government industrial modernization credit insurance, and thereby make credit facilities more readily available for the modernization of the nation's industrial economy, and stimulate increased productivity and growth in the domestic and foreign commerce of the United States.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-012
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 675, to establish procedures to relieve domestic industries and workers injured by increased imports from low-wage areas.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-037
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 3130, to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to purchase industrial and commercial evidences of indebtedness to promote certain industrial and commercial loans in redevelopment areas by lending institutions in order to help such areas plan and finance their economic redevelopment. The legislation was known as the Redevelopment Area Industrial Mortgage Purchasing Act.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-028
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 2772, to provide for holding a White House Conference on the impact of automation to be called by the President of the United States not later than one year from the date of the enactment of the bill.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-001
This folder contains material pertaining to requests for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on various enrolled bills. Also included is a list of unenacted and pending legislative proposals and their status as of 13 October 1962; a summary of the pending legislation workload as of 15 June 1962; and a copy of the Treasury Department's legislative program for 87th Congress, 2nd Session (September 1961). The file also contains possibly misfiled material related to a meeting with representatives of the building trades at the Construction Industry Joint Conference (16 March 1962), including data on various aspects of the construction industry.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-061
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill S. 1212, to promote the development of economically depressed areas by establishing a government corporation to provide a secondary market for industrial mortgages covering property in those areas. Also included is a misfiled copy of suggested amendments to S. 582.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-013
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Civil Service Commission report on S.J. Res. 105, a joint resolution to authorize appointment of a Presidential Commission on Automation.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-012
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Agriculture report on S.J. Res. 105, a joint resolution to authorize appointment of a Presidential Commission on Automation. It also includes material related to similar bills S. 2427 and S. 2623, to establish a National Commission on Automation and Technological Progress.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF84-003
This folder contains material pertaining to the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, which was established in February 1961 to give direction to the general movement of wages and prices and to encourage good labor-industrial relations. Both Walter W. Heller and Kermit Gordon of the Council of Economic Advisers were involved with the Advisory Committee. Types of material in this file include correspondence, memoranda, reports, papers, statements, press releases, charts, and news clippings. There is a copy of the published proceedings of a Conference on Fiscal and Monetary Policy sponsored by the Advisory Committee (November 1962), and data on employment from the Department of Labor (March 1961). Topics include pensions, railroads, taxes, collective bargaining, and economic recovery.