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Into the White House last week popped small, wiry NPA and DPAdministrator Henry H. ("Joe") Fowler. 44. Ever since Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson quit last March over Harry Truman's steel policy, Fowler had been carrying many of Wilson's worries but not his title. After an hour with the President, Fowler emerged wearing the title as well. It was passed on by Acting Mobilizer John R. Steelman, who, said Truman, was needed for his "fulltime role as assistant to the President...
...Since Fowler, a lawyer who has spent most of his time in Government bureaus since 1934, is no production man, the obvious implication was that the arms program is now self-propelled. Steelman issued some sugar-coated figures that seemed to say so. Reported Steelman: "Total military hard-goods deliveries in June reached $2 billion-doubling that of nine months earlier...
...last week the Administration's own No. 1 mobilizer knocked the props from under Washington's alibis. Defense Production Administrator Henry Fowler said that the U.S. productive machine has grown so much since Korea that it is now capable of meeting not only the reduced arms schedules, but stepping them up to the original rates. Of the $22 billion worth of new facilities authorized for fast tax-write-offs, 60% is already in place, said Fowler; by the end of next year, 90% will be completed. The Administration has the choice of using this extra production reserve...
...Wilson quit last March as director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Last week Harry Truman moved to fill the gap. After accepting the resignation of Manly Fleischmann, boss of the Defense Production Administration, who wants to go back to private law practice, he named Henry H. ("Joe") Fowler, head of the National Production Authority, to take over from Fleischmann...
...Fowler, 43, Virginia-born, a product of Yale Law School and a seasoned lawyer for New Deal and Fair Deal agencies, will head both DPA and NPA (which have been arms of ODM). "A single production head," explained Truman, "now promises to be the most effective means of overall coordination of mobilization production." Fowler believes the job is only half done; industrial expansion, arms output and stockpiling have still a tough way to go. He may not be around to see the program through its three-year buildup, but he foresees another need after the buildup is in hand. Then...