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Independent engineers agreed that Douglas Dam was needed; so did President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, everybody on SPAB. OPM's Bill Batt called the one-man fight against Douglas Dam an "irreparable blow to the national defense program"; McKel- lar's constituents bombarded him with angry letters. Finally he had to give...
...Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used rubber was under Sears, Roebuck's J. Lessing Rosenwald. Rubber rationing was under Price Chief Leon Henderson...
...Bill Batt announced that U.S. manganese output for 1943 will be stepped up 1,400% over 1940 (to 600,000 tons a year) by developing high-cost mines in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nevada. The Government will absorb the excess price, sell the metal to fabricators at what imported concentrate would cost them...
...Though Jesse Jones admitted having trouble getting his 400,000 tons of synthetic rubber under contract, WPB's Bill Batt told a Senate committee that the new goal is 600,000 tons...
...William Batt, Director of Materials for the War Production Board, told an audience gloomily: "Not since the days of the Revolution have we had much of a chance to lose a war. We have a chance to lose this...