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...Gave Ernest Kanzler the job of converting auto plants to defense work...
...Ernest Kanzler, onetime Ford production chief, whom Donald Nelson appointed to see to it that every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...
...Dodge, all Chrysler and G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac assembly lines stopped for the duration last week. Others will dribble along for another week or ten days. Chrysler figured 40,000 of its men would be temporarily idle, G.M. 120,000. But Conversion Tsar Ernest Kanzler thinks Detroit alone will have 600,000 war jobs by year...
...Kanzler was stunned by the vastness and complexity of his new job last week, he did not show it. Right after he got the green light, he piled aboard the Red Arrow for Detroit, there set up temporary, wire-partitioned offices on the ground floor of the Federal Building. Then he rushed to Detroit's huge Masonic Temple, laid down the law to 1,400 auto and auto-parts moguls. Said Kanzler: "We must have at once an all-out war economy...
...Nelson's deputy, Kanzler has the power* to rip machine tools out of G.M., hand them to Ford; he can take brains and manpower from Packard, give them to Nash. Whether such pooling would be attempted was undecided this week. Detroit dopesters expected Kanzler to ring himself with specialists: Chrysler's fast-moving Eddie Hunt for tank production, Ford's burly Charles Sorensen for bombers, G.M.'s Ormond Hunt (no kin to Eddie) for ordnance work...