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...OWMR argument is predicated on the theory that by next spring, when the building season starts for most of the U.S., both men and materials will be available on a scale ample to meet the rush. To make the gamble a good one, it has already had OPA put price increases on cast iron, soil pipe, gypsum lath and the clay industry, is now hinting broadly that, to get the labor to make these materials, wages will also have to be hiked...
...Cushion. The Army plans as they shaped up last week were to spend $800,000,000 for planes and parts up to June 1947, plus another $500,000,000 for experimental work. In all, the Army wants only 2,128 planes, including everything from helicopters to jet fighters. As OWMR John W. Snyder has already approved the Army program, it has a good chance of getting past Congress...
...Reconversion Boss Snyder is far from satisfied with the Navy program. When the Navy first came in with a list of 5,578 planes, he sent it back for pruning. Before OWMR is through, the order may be slashed to 2,654 planes. If Army & Navy plans go through, the industry can count on Government orders of some $87,000,000 a month for the next 22 months, in addition to civilian orders already on hand. For these reasons planemakers were far cockier about the future than they had expected to be a month...
Controls: Off & On. OWMR Boss John W. Snyder, still new in his job, got the task of drawing a master plan, of coordinating all the emergency plans...
...read in the newspapers that he, his railroad and four officials of the B. & 0. were in trouble with the Government. Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the powerful Interstate Commerce Committee, had sent a sizzling letter about the B. & O.'s finances to OWMR Boss John W. Snyder, who is still filling the job of Federal Loan Administrator...