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This startling fact was underscored last week when OPM materials chief William Batt told air-conditioning makers they could get top-rung priorities on all blast-furnace installations. In fact, steel companies will be urged to air-condition, can have RFC money to pay for the jobs. Reason: air-conditioned furnaces produce more iron (TIME, April...
Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...
Thus ended the long Battle of Steel between U.S. defense and production men. Last summer, shortage-predictors looked like crackpots; few but New Dealers were for expansion of steel capacity. In December, OPM's William Loren Batt predicted rationing if expansion did not take place. Not until June did OPM and the industry agree on a 10,000,000-ton expansion program. Said American Iron & Steel Institute's Walter Tower only last month: "There is no sound factual basis for expecting shortage of steel for any essential...
Last week, before the Edison Electrical Institute meeting in Buffalo, OPM's William Loren Batt made the shortage sound more ominous. Estimating that 1,000,000 new kilowatts were required for expanded aluminum output alone, he recommended the extension of daylight saving time all over the nation. SEC Chairman Eicher chimed in: "Competent authorities are predicting that serious generating deficiencies will be encountered in many areas...
...Batt hastened to explain that what he might say or hear at NPA bullfests had no connection with what he did at his OPM desk...