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The fight over synthetic rubber was finished (TIME, Feb. 8). The issue-how many synthetic rubber plants Czar William Jeffers could build without using materials needed by the Army & Navy-was ancient history. The decision was already on the books: Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, as referee, had decided to...
Fact 4. One of the three conflicting programs must suffer: rubber, escort vessels, or high-octane gas. Jimmy Byrnes has decided-wisely, but after a long delay -that the last 585,000 tons of capacity in the Baruch rubber recommendations can best be spared for now.
Czars were now a dime a dozen: the U.S. had Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, Production Czar Donald Nelson, Manpower Czar Paul McNutt, Food Czar Claude Wickard, Rubber Czar William Jeffers. But they were more like Grand Dukes than Czars: under their high-sounding titles, divided authority and lack of...
Rubber Czar Jeffers, trying to do his job, had got all fouled up with the Army & Navy. Economic Czar Byrnes had stepped in to cut away the tangle-but no one was sure last week who would enforce the compromise he had laid down. Manpower Czar McNutt began stretching his...
After last summer's wasting days of turmoil, Franklin Roosevelt had stepped in with some spectacular reorganizations-appointment of Byrnes and Jeffers, of McNutt and Wickard, a shakeup of WPB. Now, even inside the Administration, observers agreed that this, too, had been a stopgap. The sound effects had been...