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...Question of Timing. Automen thought that WPB's conservative figures were close to the mark. They had to find the solution to more problems than the steel supply before they could count on fast-moving assembly line operations. Now auto manufacturers had a hunting license, but they still needed to know how soon: 1) their military orders would be sharply cut; 2) they could clear the acres of special purpose Government-owned tools from their plants; 3) machine-tool manufacturers could deliver the some $40 million of new machinery needed to get back to the manufacture of 1942 models...
This put the makers of pianos & piccolos on the same footing as Detroit's automakers, who have long hoped for special reconversion favors. It disappointed the automen, but it pleased those who had feared that WPB planned to shift the U.S. back to peace cautiously, industry by industry, and thus penalize some...
...Boss Bowles has still not made up his mind how much the automen, and the makers of new products, will be allowed to charge the public. But he is sure of one thing: the price will be set, not on the high cost of the first few articles, but on the much lower cost of eventual mass production...
Last week WPB, hustling to make up for lost time, gave the automen another leg up. It handed out high priorities so that they can build $35,000,000 in new plants, spend another $45,000,000 for rehabilitation of tools. This will give them room to assemble cars, or do war work that will still occupy auto plants...
...when auto production will start, WPBoss Krug kept mum. But he flatly denied reports that the industry has already been given the go-ahead to turn out 250,000 cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Actually, automen knew as well as Krug that there would be no signal given for auto production until...