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Hunt for a Villain. In Washington, a Senate committee was shrilly trying to find out why. ODT's J. Monroe Johnson led off by accusing 1) CPA, for not allocating enough steel for cars and 2) the railroads, for not ordering enough cars. With the U.S. in immediate need of 100,000 freight cars, railroads have so far placed orders for only 78,000. What the railroads should do, said Johnson, was order at least 250,000. That would make it worthwhile for car companies to set up mass production lines...
Villain Found? Some railroad men laid the blame to lack of steel. Only 48,000 tons of steel a month, said they, were allocated for freight cars in 1946 under CPA's "voluntary set-aside" policy. It would take 180,000 tons to turn out the needed monthly minimum of 10,000 cars. The automakers, they cried, were getting far more than their share of steel, while railroads were getting the same percentage (9%) that they got during the war. Snapped Railway Age: "Of all the tremendous tonnage of steel freed for civilian use when war production ceased...
...week's end the White House was still significantly silent. Washington dopesters guessed what the answer would be: to sweep the emergency housing program into the new catch-all agency for the ragtag ends of CPA and OPA. That would leave Wilson Wyatt standing in the rain...
...CPA's tough, energetic Jack Small was anxious to get moving (possibly to the board chairmanship of 20th Century-Fox), but felt there was still much he could do for the Government. Steelman's office agreed by suggesting that if Small were appointed acting head of ORP, the agency to end controls could get going promptly...
Meanwhile a spokesman for the CPA, enforcement agency for the dimont, said that Harvard had little or no outside commercial illumination and therefore figured little in the matter. Decorative lighting such as that upon the Lowell House tower is "wholly unnecessary," he added, "and should be turned off temporarily...