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...Government's new program of giving key war jobs to honest-to-goodness business big shots instead of their assistants, yes men and front men scored again last week: Ferdinand Eberstadt persuaded the No. 1 man of General Mills (world's biggest miller) to give up his job in Minneapolis to head WPB's new Program Coordination Division...
...magic of obtaining more materials than exist by the simple device of inventing higher priority ratings has about lost its effectiveness as a stage illusion, even in Washington. AA-2x, it appeared, was only a stopgap measure until WPBoss Donald Nelson's new plan-it man Ferdinand Eberstadt (TIME. Sept. 28) got the new, more realistic allocations system under...
This week Ferd Eberstadt's industry branch heads are each to lay on his desk their drafts for the better system. Washington dopesters thought they already saw its broad outlines: a "warrants" or "quota" system similar to the allocations system the British...
...dared hint last week that the Eberstadt-streamlined plan would actually solve the materials mess. Too many other plans that sounded lovely on paper have flopped in practice. But last week there was a good augury for the birth of the new plan. The Production Requirements Committee met to allocate materials to each of the services for the fourth quarter. And for the first time in history the Committee actually allocated no more materials than were known to be available...
...last week Ferdinand Eberstadt, Donald Nelson's new right-hand man, spent much of his first week in office trying to cope with the problem. The Army sent chunky, wisecracking Colonel Baxter over to WPB to take on the job. Colonel Baxter is no novice in war work or Government jobs: he had almost 20 years of active service after graduating from West Point in 1911, plus a stretch as one of Hugh Johnson's division heads in NRA days. This week Colonel Baxter is due to make his first move: a new Steel Recovery Corp., backed...