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...answer the last, no investigation is needed. Everyone in Washington knows that when Jeffers won his super-duper priority from WPB, last December, the high-octane program suffered. Just how much is a military secret. But privately Washington whispers that monthly pro duction falls thousands of barrels below requirements. So far, the shortage has not interfered with overseas operations; the danger is in the long-term outlook...
...Manufacturers. Although its regular business is dead for the duration, Detroit itself was anything but dead this week. The reason for stopping auto pro duction is not merely to save steel, rubber, etc., but to force conversion of Detroit's unparalleled productive plant to war. Last week Detroit was already busy on some $4 billion in war contracts, even after $850,000,000 deliveries in 1941. This week the automotive backlog was boosted to a titanic $9 billion, thus making Detroit the No. 1 U.S. munitions maker (No. 2: aviation with $6 billion...
...brains of defense, SPAB has turned out to be just another feeble tentacle of the hydra-like monster. Donald Nelson, its executive director, has no vote in its councils. Moreover, Nelson has two conflicting jobs. As SPAB director he is boss of William Knudsen's Office of Pro duction Management. As OPM's priorities director, he is Knudsen's hired hand...
...Candidate Roosevelt made out the best possible case for aircraft procurement 10,015 aircraft "in the process of pro duction") and his critics, using the same facts, made out the worst possible case (only 343 combat planes ordered since...
...anyone who has gone through this drought area can say a kind word for nature's method of crop re- duction," observed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to an audience of North Dakota farmers at Bismarck. "Man's methods may be full of imperfections . . . but they are perfection itself by comparison. . . ." The rainfall in the Midwest did not deter President Roosevelt in Washington from sending Congress a special message asking for $525,0.00,000 worth of "large-scale assistance" to be parcelled out as follows: 1) $125,000,000 to give farmers without fields work on roads, public buildings...