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...first the final scene of the old priority farce had to be played. WPB announced a new quickie priority, label AA-2X. The supposedly top priority is Aia, but AA-2X rates ahead of it-to get war factories small amounts of critical materials when needed in a rush to keep production going (of course for still greater emergencies there were already two still higher ratings...
...decide what is most important, the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission can go right on upsetting the balance of scarce-materials allocations all over the place, by constantly assigning to their "emergency" orders higher & higher super-privilege ratings that now take precedence over the old top rating of AiA...
...steel pinch is tighter than ever. As its solution of the problem, WPB gravely issued a flock of super-priority ratings (like AAA, AA-1, AA-2) to some former holders of the highly prized Aia. Results are fantastic. Machine-tool builders, for example, cannot even wangle a promise of delivery on their A-1-a orders...