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Since the overoptimistic plans made after the U.S. Army's dash to Paris, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes has determinedly kept the lid on talk of reconversion after V-E day. But last week, as U.S. soldiers whisked across the Rhine, the lid popped off. Out boiled a spate...
One reason was that when Jimmy Byrnes scotched all reconversion talk, he also scotched a lot of reconversion planning. Today the War Production Board is still in the dark about how many and what kinds of weapons the Army & Navy will need to lick Japan.
Last week the armed services were making an appraisal of their Pacific war needs and in the process trying to draw up a list of plants which can be freed for civilian manufacture after V-E day. Not until he has this information can Jimmy Byrnes draft an overall reconversion...
An ex-Congressman from Kentucky, an ex-Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, Fred Vinson is still best remembered for his hard, intelligent work on tax bills in the House. As Jimmy Byrnes's successor in OES, he has worked mightily to hold...
Swing-shifters go after recreation in the small hours of the night, and in war-boom cities, dancehalls, bowling alleys, cinemas and skating rinks have swing-shift hour periods. Last week a Los Angeles aircraft local of the United Automobile Workers protested to Byrnes: "We seriously feel this order will...