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...industry boss: ex-Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shy, esthetic Lessing Rosenwald retired in 1939, since has administered his philanthropies (including the noted Rosenwald Fund started by his father) and pursued his hobby of collecting etchings. Last summer he went to Washington as head of OPM's commodity section on silk. He was once a member of the America First Committee and an outspoken Willkie supporter in the last campaign, but,many a bygone is bygone in Washington's 1941 emergency...
Although Robert McConnell, head of OPM's old conservation section, was passed over for the top job, he was by no means purged. He will continue as head of a new Engineers' Defense Board which will advise Rosenwald. Its first job: to knock unnecessary requirements out of U.S. building codes, thus save on materials going into construction...
...OPM's Bill Knudsen knew nothing about the Conservation Bureau until its organization was complete...
Estimates of October freight-car supplies and loadings were a dime a dozen last week. Ralph Budd admitted that there would be 20,000 fewer new cars than the roads had planned for; the National Planning Association predicted a 40,000-50,000 car shortage; the latest OPM report figured there would be a deficit of 80,000 cars. But on one score there was clear agreement: the coal movement might be the backbreaking straw...
Also, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, will be here only part time since he will be working in his office as Special Consultant in the Division of Industrial Materials in the OPM...