Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Byrnes. The President also set up a new joint Army & Navy production-survey committee, which henceforth will take all major military and production-supply problems directly to Jimmy Byrnes, Czar of the Office of War Mobilization. This meant: 1) a new further bypassing of WPB's ineffective boss...
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, after much pondering and consultation in his office (see cut), five weeks ago submitted a report to Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents...
Those who insisted that the report was as significant as the famed Baruch rubber report exaggerated. Baruch, assisted by Byrnes's consultant John Hancock, had not intended to make an overall manpower study. At Czar Jimmy's request, he had sat down with aircraft makers* on the bench...
The West Coast Plan. Last week Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes clamped the Buffalo plan - with modifications -onto five West Coast areas: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Portland. There the manpower shortage has forced a slow scaling down of U.S. plane production goals, and threatens to knock...
The shortage is needlessly complicated by having labor and production balanced by two committees, one run by WPB, one by WMC. But Byrnes, following recommendations by Bernard Baruch (see p. 19), gave them a potent weapon lacking in Buffalo-authority to cancel less essential contracts, if necessary, to create a...