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...OPM last week blurted bad news for the press: next year there is not going to be paper enough to go around. Publications will have to get along with less paper...
Announced OPM's Chief of Pulp & Paper Norbert A. McKenna: "Paper is an essential commodity in war as in peace. It packages goods for Britain, it carries Army orders, it wraps our food, it prints our magazines and publishes our newspapers. The needs for defense, directly and indirectly, next year are estimated to consume 30% of the available paper supply. The total available American supply will approximate 21½ million tons. Total demand for defense and civilian needs may total as much as 25½ million tons. . . . We challenge you to form a gigantic paper 'V for victory...
This challenge would have been more appealing had not OPM declared two months ago that there was no newsprint shortage in sight. It would have been more convincing had not Paper Policeman McKenna suddenly boosted OPM's estimate of paper needs by nearly 40%-two months ago OPM set demand at only 18½ million tons. It was evident that OPM's figures on paper supply & demand, production capacities, are contradictory, that the Government is approaching paper rationing with as little savvy as gasoline rationing...
...builders and building contractors specializing in home construction, the new priorities system means dislocations aplenty. Tweedy little Sullivan W. Jones, a Manhattan builder who went to Washington last July looking for contracts and wound up as OPM's chief of housing priorities, estimates that 100,000 construction workers will lose their jobs. But, says Jones, without priorities 500,000 would have been thrown out of work...
Priorities, though obsolescent (see p. 79), were the only way OPM had to restore order to the building industry...