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...Kellogg, Iowa, the Midwest Metal Stamping Co. makes One Minute Washers. Said one of its officers last week: "Today you lose the agitator, tomorrow the drain spout, the next day the wringer heads." His washing-machine production this year will be 6,000, half of last year's; next year he expects it will probably be nothing. Of the rest of his business-stampings for light sockets, etc.-½ of 1% is now for defense. He thinks that could be increased. Meanwhile, he has laid off 100 of his 300 employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Victims of Defense | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...rose Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute and $1-a-year power man for 0PM. He declared that present U.S. generating capacity allowed for a 20% margin of safety, is adequate for all defense and civilian needs. Tired of needling by the Federal Power Commission, which has predicted a power shortage ever since 1934, he remarked: "Power shortages estimated by public bodies have generally been at a time in the future so distant that they have been eliminated by new construction before the time arrived." E.E.I, foresaw an increase of installed capacity to 48,000,000 kilowatts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shortage: Its Whys, Ifs & Ickes | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Next day Mr. Kellogg was given the lie direct. First to do so was Ickes. "This is no time," cried he to a press conference, "for any man to fool either himself or the people. I don't know whether Mr. Kellogg was trying to fool himself, but he certainly was misrepresenting the facts to the people." Asked whether he felt that 0PM should seek a new power expert, Ickes replied: "Why, they haven't got one now." And Mr. Kellogg? "Ha! He's worth all of the $1 a year he's being paid. . . . Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shortage: Its Whys, Ifs & Ickes | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Papa did just that. OPM responded to the Ickes blast by repudiating Mr. Kellogg and his optimism, said he must have spoken "in his private [non-OPM] capacity," since "this office is not in agreement. . . . On the contrary, representatives have been . . . developing a program to provide additional power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shortage: Its Whys, Ifs & Ickes | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...went 80,000 copies (10? a copy); to subscribers went 37,000 annual subscriptions ($1 a year), about half of them donated by good-neighborly U.S. readers. Included were 32 pages of ads-first in Reader's Digest-by such firms as Gillette Razor, General Motors, Parker Pen, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, big oil companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hemispheric Editions | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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