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...head of defense production, who would negotiate and decide directly with Beaverbrook. But thus far there was no single U.S. head. The President still preferred to delegate problems individually. Meanwhile Beaverbrook's effectiveness deeply impressed many White House advisers. (Particularly bowled over was OPM's William Knudsen, who had long agreed with U.S. automobile companies that they were unable to convert more than 15% of their plant to war production, had always suggested slow, costly building of new plants. Lord Beaverbrook, who had been told the same thing by British automen, told Knudsen that auto-plant conversion...
...Overlapping : e.g., on SPAB, Knudsen is under Nelson, although Knudsen has a vote and Nelson has not; while in OPM Nelson is under Knudsen, although Nelson's priorities should rule Knudsen's production program...
...tape: best recent news in defense was the quick start on conversion into tank production by farm-equipment manufacturers. This was the result of a mistake: the OPM official in charge forgot to take his conversion program to Knudsen's production division and get it okayed; mistakenly took it direct to the industry, which began converting for tank production immediately...
...contracts-that is an Army & Navy function. SPAB cannot finance projects -that is a Jesse Jones monopoly. SPAB cannot enforce its Latin American rulings-such policies are set by the Board of Economic Warfare and interfered with by the State Department. SPAB cannot touch production-that belongs to Knudsen in OPM. SPAB cannot handle conversion-that is the function of Floyd Odium's subcontracting division, and Odium cannot do anything either, because the Army & Navy let all contracts. Yet SPAB is supposedly the top defense board...
...days after Pearl Harbor, Reuther was back on the radio, with a new version of his plan. He bluntly aired his fight with Knudsen, who had given him the brush-off by claiming that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced...