Word: batt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Materials-the job of finding enough of them-remains under Batt, who also heads a new Requirements Committee. This committee will survey existing supplies of raw materials, allocate them among Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilians...
...second in command, Nelson chose craggy, red-faced Engineer William Batt Sr., former president of big S.K.F. Industries (ball bearings). Able, levelheaded Bill Batt has worked with Nelson since NDAC, was one of the first men to recognize that Washington's defense sights were too low, one of the first to warn of approaching bottlenecks in aluminum and steel...
Plain-spoken and informal, Bill Batt is the best-liked of all defense officials. Among his friends are such diverse characters as Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Sir Clive Baillieu of the British Purchasing Commission. Nobody calls him Mr. Batt; he is always referred to as Bill Batt-pronounced as if it were one word. When he called Jesse Jones last week, a warmhearted Texas girl in Jones's office said: "Jus' a minute, honey." All Washington thought that Bill Batt and Donald Nelson would make a good team...
Nelson sent former Ford Executive Ernest C. Kanzler off to Detroit to speed auto-plant conversion. Bill Batt bluntly told the Navy (which, with the Army, has wasted many a ton of scarce metal in froufrou) that he would cut down its aluminum supply...
...William Batt's own SKF Industries controls the weather in its ball-bearing plants; Chevrolet has units in its machine-gun plant; Alabama's Rust Engineering has a 1,200-ton machine in its shell-loading plant...