Word: benschoten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands of a Dutch mayonnaise executive (vice president and general manager of Hellmann's) named Maus R. Van Benschoten. He has been peering through his horn-rimmed spectacles for strategic materials tied up in railroad yards, warehouses, backyards. By last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...
...Jobs 2 & 3, if successfully finished, would make these "vast quantities" look like peanuts. They were both under the supervision of Van Benschoten's boss, Ernest Tupper, OPM's tall, blond Coordinator of Industry & Commodity Research. Ernie Tupper is surveying 1) industry's inventories, and 2) those of the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission. By last week, his industry surveys (86,000 firms were questioned) were almost all in, but untabulated. They had already turned up some interesting preliminary unbalances: pulp and paper mills with ten months' supply of lead; 59 printing-machinery plants with nine...