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Economic Tsar Byrnes is no great master of economics (though he is a longtime friend and follower of Wizard Bernie Baruch), but he is not supposed to be. He will leave administrative details to his new committee: the heads of all the wartime and peacetime agencies which now deal with the various aspects of inflation, including OPA's Leon Henderson, the War Labor Board's William H. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Byrnes's job is to listen to the arguments among his committee members (who have seldom seen eye to eye in the past...
Eberstadt went to Washington last January at the behest of two old friends, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. Working with Forrestal and Patterson on the Munitions Board, he has tried to use the same straight-line tactics that Bernard M. Baruch applied to World War I, has sided with the Army in its arguments with WPB but has always believed that the right men could make WPB work. Now he will get his chance to prove...
Jeffers jumped into his job by digesting the report, going to Manhattan to meet Baruch for the first time, and laying out a campaign against rubber bumbling. His powers: i) to give orders for carrying out the rubber program to any appropriate government agencies; 2) to issue a nationwide order for gas rationing and tire-conserving speed limits; 3) to call on the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator and the Rubber Reserve Company for research and supervision of synthetic-rubber plant construction. He must work out a 100,000-ton increase in butadiene output within six months, build facilities...
Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, Harvard President James B. Conant and M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton in 37 days had gone to the bottom of the rubber mess to get the ugly facts of wartime life...
...mustachioed General Manager Charles Gordon clambered on to the speaker's platform in the ornate Red Lacquer Room, bluntly told fidgety delegates what to expect: 20 billion passengers a year by October, 22 billion by December - a 30% increase over 1941's 17 billion. And after the Baruch rubber conservation scheme hit the headlines, Gordon upped his estimate to 24½ billion...