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...used by one responsible agency, caused the endless, fruitless arguments which snarled the whole first year of defense. The lack accounted for steel and aluminum shortages which cropped up right after the Office of Production Management had declared them impossible. It created a long crossfire between Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, who thought rail capacity was lovely, and New Deal economists who thought it was lousy. It was still apparent last week in such unintelligible mazes as the Eastern Seaboard oil situation...
...deficit might not materialize. Tank cars, which he understood to number 18,000, might fill the tanker gap. But the tank cars were elusive. He did not know where they were, whether they were idle, how they could be put to work. Neither Transportation Defense Commissioner Ralph Budd nor American Association of Railroads President John Pelley could tell him. The Senators decided to get hold of Messrs. Budd and Pelley, track the tank cars to their lair...
...Ralph Budd, who spent the first year of defense in issuing statements that there was no transportation emergency; who only recently has settled down to catching up with his last year...
...cashing in on the by-products of his reputation. Besides his take from writing and broadcasting, he is getting a fee reported to be around $20,000 for nine weeks' work as technical adviser for an RKO film called Passage from Bordeaux (adapted from a novelette by Budd Schulberg). Shirer was offered a small part in this refugee drama as a radio broadcaster but turned it down on the grounds that his screen face is depressing...
...would scarcely be enough to turn out 15,000,000 tons of steel even in normal times. And scrap is now abnormally scarce. Last week OPM steelmen particularly recommended expansion of Bessemer steel capacity, because the otherwise less economical Bessemer process requires very little scrap. Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd announced a program to collect 232,000 tons of abandoned streetcar rails. But Cleveland's Daily Metal Trades reported that steel mills are still using more scrap than they can replace, that reserves will be gone in eight weeks. Before OPM officials can attend the firing ceremonies...