Word: batt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Saltonstall smelled. Some other equally respectable "sponsors" of the Council caught the whiff and withdrew: Harold Ickes, executive chairman of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and professions; Judge Learned Hand of the Circuit Court of Appeals; Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin of Manhattan; William L. Batt, wartime vice chairman of WPB; Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper...
Should it be operated by the Government? Should it be turned loose to live or die? Should it be kept alive in an incubator by tariff protection? An interdepartmental committee, headed by popular red-faced William L. Batt, wartime rubber czar, tried to answer these questions. Its answer to all of them: No. The Batt committee hoped to turn the war baby into a healthy, unsubsidized and profit-making private industry...
What shall the U.S. do with its $700 million worth of synthetic rubber plants? Last week the Inter-Agency Policy Committee on Rubber,* chairmaned by William L. Batt, laid down a broad program for the care and feeding of this wartime monster which might easily turn into a peacetime white elephant...
...pair of Dons, McNees and Royce, were seen "operating" in the Commodore Grill last Saturday--so they say. Word from Batt Comm Brocker says that the differences in atmosphere between the Hasty Pudding Club and Miss Inglis' headache are negligible. Fred "No relation to the Ale" Ballentine is rumored to have stumbled on something while renewing acquaintances at American Airlines recently. Gad, the luck of some people...
...President Batt's explanations, SKF in Sweden last week added its own: that bearing shipments to Germany ($7,000,000 in 1944) are less than 10% of Germany's needs. The U.S. War Department was not so sure. It lost 60 Flying Fortresses and 600 men bombing Germany's ballbearing center of Schweinfurt, where the chief producer is an SKF subsidiary (TIME, Oct. 5). It suspects that SKF (Sweden) may now be supplying as high as 70% of Germany's needs of some special bearings...