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...reason electric iron production is to be resumed: an OCR survey turned up only 14 new irons for sale throughout the U. S. A later survey found only...
...OCR borrowed enough to ease the civilian shortage, will pay back the yardage from its own allotment. In cases in which the Army has no such surplus OCR will borrow plant output, turn over to the Army OCR's allotment of output later...
Defeat for Dreamers. When these bedrock facts are firmly in hand, OCR will try to wangle an increase in certain civilian articles, the resumption of manufacture of others. The bulk of additional goods will be in "irritation items," large in U.S. usage, small in material requirements: needles, razor blades, nails, bobby pins, repair parts for household appliances and cars. OCR knows better than to ask manufacture of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators (200,000 are still frozen...
...with war production down a sickening 8% in June, there is now little hope for the increase. In the current quarter, demands for steel are 6,000,000 tons over supply. Demand will probably be just as top-heavy in the final quarter. Neither OCR Boss Whiteside nor anyone else in WPB will take an ounce of steel for civilians, if the armed forces need...
...materials are only one part of the problem. Another is manpower. Ideally, civilian articles should be turned out in plants too small for efficient war work. But thousands of such plants have locked their doors, unable to compete with high wages in big war plants. OCR has no power to reopen them...