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Actually the announcement, when analyzed, meant little more than what SPAB said two weeks ago in ordering priorities for defense housing (TIME, Oct. 6). With most building materials earmarked for defense through priorities, non-defense builders would have to scramble for the rest, would doubtless have to curtail from 1941 levels. SPAB might logically make itself tsar of the building industry some day (as Bernard M. Baruch's World War I Industries Board did by requiring special permits for all projects involving more than $500). But it was not ready to go that far last week...
Approximately 40 employees walked out at the Briggs Body Company's Mack Avenue plant and the Dodge division of the Chrysler Motor Corp. A shortage of Briggs-made equipment forced Chrysler's Plymouth plant to curtail operations...
...model year that began Aug. 1). Manufacturers of heavy and medium trucks were to get A-3 priorities on materials (with a careful check to see that materials went into trucks, not passenger cars). But this same priority rating has not saved railroad-car builders from having to curtail production for lack of steel...
...Federal Communications Commission report, if put into effect, would, in our judgment, greatly curtail the opportunity for ... nationwide [religious broadcasting] service, and would jeopardize cultural, educational, musical and religious broadcasting in general. . . . The action proposed by the Federal Communications Commission seems to us hasty, drastic and ill-considered...
...question that lies at the heart of the whole present censorship debate in the U.S. is the confusion of the press with the enemy. They are not . . . one and the same. . . . Press censorship is not going to curtail or hinder the flow of information to the enemy because the enemy is not dependent in important measure on the press...