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Last week in Donald Nelson's office, the 140 publishers who heard Henry Doorly describe his drive were warned by the steel industry's Salvage Committee that "only a miracle" can prevent the curtailment of steel production within several months for lack of scrap. Bluff Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the Services of Supply, said: "You are not going to get scrap by one blast in your papers. You will have to keep after it day & night, for unless everybody puts everything he has into this war, we are not going...
...Unhappily-and unavoidably, the High Commands seemed to think-the only solution was still the one that had solved nothing yet. The Allies, dispersing their forces to meet the enemy wherever he was, in essence let the Axis General Staffs determine the grand strategy of the war. Lieut. General Brehon B, Somervell of the U.S. Army brutally stated the consequences last week. Said he: "We are losing...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell told them the war might be won or lost in the schools. The Army, he said, is dangerously short of technically trained men. Example: though the Army needs 4,689 trained radio operators in every 300,000 men inducted, it is getting only 135. In an army of 4,000,000 there is a shortage of 139,160 auto mechanics, a total shortage of 838,040 specialists...
...private luncheon at the Army and Navy Club, blunt Henry Kaiser outshouted Airt Chief Henry ("Hap") Arnold and tough Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the Services of Supply, when they challenged his ability to produce. He had found an unexpected ally in ubiquitous Harold Ickes, who suggested that the Bureau to Mines might help find some untapped mineral resources. Then Donald Nelson, acting tougher than Washington had ever seen him, took Kaiser's proposal to the White House, convinced Frankling Roosevelt in one session that the man who had shown shipbuilders how to build ships should be allowed...
Last month, while Nelson was realigning WPB to handle the new No. 1 problem of materials shortages, Brehon Somervell moved again. He drew up his own plan, making the Army boss of everything, leaving WPB a paper-shuffling agency. At last Donald Nelson realized that he was in a fight. He went to the White House; President Roosevelt vetoed the Somervell plan...