Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ickes cannot watch any spectacle for than a few minutes without comment, usually acidulous. First he chafed. Then his hackles rose. Finally he boiled over, blew his top. His basic point: the U.S. is going to run out of everything. He ran out of aluminum months before Big Ed Stettinius' materials division saw any real problem. He ran out of steel in January, although the President, Economist Gano Dunn and Stettinius were still insisting in February that the U.S. had of plenty of steel. In quick succession Harold Ickes then ran out of electric power, coal, transportation, railroad & shipping...
...civilian producers, SPAB and Regulation No. 1 make priorities more a matter of life-&-death than ever. But from the new system they may expect a break that Ed Stettinius' aimless methods never provided. Donald Nelson, who will run priorities for SPAB, believes that it is as important morale-wise to keep civilian supplies and factories going (at least in part) as it is to get guns built. At week's end SPAB played with the idea of determining minimum requirements of consumer industries first, allotting the remainder to Army, Navy and Lend-Lease-just the opposite...
...make this setup a little blood had to be shed. Two weak spots in OPM were Production, headed by John David Biggers, and Priorities headed by Edward R. Stettinius. Both were given jobs in which they may have more success...
Edward R. ("Big Ed") Stettinius was promoted to the post of Lend-Lease Administrator-which will still be supervised by Harry Hopkins. (Stettinius last week telephoned a chum happily, chortled: "I got the plum...
John Biggers, whose handling of political hedgehogs in OPM had caused enmities, became Mr. Stettinius' opposite on the London end of the telephone: Lend-Lease Administrator in England-although W. Averell Harriman and Mr. Hopkins will continue to have the basic responsibility for that...