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...fact that OPM is floundering in a sea of statistics does not alter the prospect of shortage. Many a publisher, aware of the notorious excess capacity of newsprint mills, has been lulled into a false sense of security. But under defense pressure mills have begun turning pulp into products which they never dreamed of, even laminating newsprint into special paperboard for shell boxes. Before many months it seems certain that the U.S. press will have to take in its belt...
...meeting changed Toledoans' minds. Head of the Washington delegation was Alex Taub, a former Chevrolet and Vauxhall (British G.M.) production engineer who-experting for OPM and SPAB-has been in the front lines of Washington groups fighting for more subcontracting. With Taub was a group of Army men headed by Major J. B. Maderis of the War Department's contracts distribution branch. Both Taub and Major Maderis gave the Toledo plan their blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities...
Basis of SPAB's action was a report by OPM's white-haired steel expert, William A. Hauck. At his instigation, 30 steel companies had submitted specific plans for expanding their plants in 15 States. Their plans kept the regional distribution of the U.S. steel plant about where it was before. One noteworthy change: the Pacific Coast, with 1,865,300 tons of new pig iron and steel ingot capacity projected, was to be made virtually self-sufficient...
...Jesse Jones, who must sign the contracts and advance the money. If it takes his Defense Plant Corp. as long to sign up for new steel as it has for new aluminum, the new tonnage may remain on paper indefinitely. In the two and a half months since OPM approved a 6,500,000-ton pig-iron expansion, Businessman Jesse Jones, tortured by post-war overcapacity nightmares, has signed up for barely half of that tonnage. With the scrap-iron shortage worse than ever,† he will have to finance a lot more pig iron, too, to support...
This nine-way confusion was worse confounded when all nine agencies turned up in OPM's priorities division, each demanding copper, zinc, iron and steel. Certifier Palmer and Allocator Carmody also yelled contradictory advice in OPM's ear. Month ago, Palmer once more got the Presidential nod, was given certifying power over all defense housing priorities. Carmody, who sees no need for Palmer's job, would gladly take it over. Last July he told a House committee that the Coordinator's title was spelled "d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r." Last week he said...