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Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch had completed his investigation of the rubber scandal; at week's end he sat down to write a short, terse summary of the facts. Official Washington heard that he would report a welter of confusion and mismanagement in early handling of the shortage. He might be persuaded to soft-pedal all that, but he would state flatly that the situation is now so critical that all pleasure driving should be eliminated and automobiles used only for essential business. He and his brainy colleagues, James Bryant Conant and Karl Taylor Compton, had also looked...
...nation on meat rations. It made clear its intention of drafting an army so huge that most of the able-bodied men in the nation will be in uniform within a few months. Its final decision on the rubber problem was being rapidly drafted by the hands of Bernard Baruch. Its own internal pressures were slowly bringing nearer a reorganization of the War Production Board...
...steel "shortage." But the cure was not in intramural bickering in WPB's big undisciplined mob. A more likely solution had already been laid on Nelson's desk by big (6 ft. 3) hustling Reese Taylor, steel division chief: he wants a quota plan patterned after Bernard Baruch's World War I steel controls (TIME...
With a few exceptions, WPB has never yet enlisted the real No. 1 men of U.S. industry, as Baruch's Industries Board did in World War I. Many of its staff members failed to produce on the old National Defense Advisory Commission, on OPM and SPAB-but still hold similar jobs under new titles. One high WPB official admitted last week: "You could take the entire WPB personnel-stenographers, clerks and brass hats-line them up single file, fire every other one indiscriminately, and come out with a better organization...
...well-earned week off, one of the first things he saw on his desk was a new plan to reorganize the disorganized, ring around-the-rosy Washington steel muddle into one sense-making package. The plan had its genesis one evening two months ago when Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch dined with Don Nelson and his Steel Branch Chief Reese Taylor. Baruch, reminiscing about World War I, recalled that he had set up one steel section, under Steelman J. Leonard Replogle (now adviser to the Army & Navy Munitions Board). Replogle controlled steel from priorities to production. He was responsible only...