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...rubber tires? (see p. 15). Westbrook Pegler solemnly proposed death-the treatment for horse thieves in the Old West-for such U.S. curs as stole tires. Liberal journals thundered at Jesse Jones: "Where are our tin factories?" The Auto Workers Union thundered (in half-page advertisements) at "Mr. OPM." One thunderclap: "Where is the Reuther Plan?" Samuel Grafton, most belligerent columnar thunderer for the New Deal, thundered at the State Department (for protesting the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miqueloa): "Where Is Our Foreign Policy...
...Reuther plan was replete with technical impossibilities, which OPM was quick to point out. It also contained a practical idea-the idea of conversion-about which OPM did nothing. Wrote Walter Lippmann eleven months later: "That piece of Philistinism cost us not merely an unconscionable delay in using the resources of the motor industry but it cost us the enthusiastic participation of labor in national defense...
...taxes, and in a perfectly legal way if you just wait long enough. But do you want to? Can you run this business more efficiently than I can?" Ford's defense record in 1941 made the answer self-evident. The most useful things he did were not those OPM did for him, but those he did by himself...
...Where necessary, pool equipment and facilities, discontinue overlapping services and routes, regulate the routing of traffic. > Obtain from OPM materials for new equipment and maintenance...
Direct war industries, figures OPM, now employ 4,000,000 workers, by June will employ 6,000,000, by June 1943, 9,000,000. Of these, only 25% can be unskilled. So serious was the skill shortage in machine tools that Ford Hinrichs, acting chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, began talking about the need for "organized piracy" -i.e., a sort of priority on skills (he did not say labor conscription...