the roosevelt administration chose john kenneth galbraith for the job.had a couple of dozen people and the task of taking charge of all the prices in the economy. in my more mature years, i would have been appalled. at that time i thought the right man had been selected for the right job. how does one select which prices to control? the original idea was to control those prices where the war had brought something into very short supply. then we'd ration. we'd let the market take care of other prices, keeping demand equal to supply. that proved totally impossible. one had to control all prices, and we did. price controls were only one weapon in the economic war. scarce resources were rationed. silk, for example, was no longer available for stockings, so resourceful women found substitutes. before industrial conversion began-- before automobile assembly lines, for example, could produce tanks and planes-- there was resistance to overcome. president roosevelt's advisers assured him that business had to make money or business wouldn't produce. so the governm