Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final tatters of respectability were ripped last week from the old highfalutin promise that U.S. aluminum production capacity was plenty big enough for all needs. The Office of Production Management, whose high-rankers were parties to the mistaken promise, announced through OPM's Ed Stettinius aluminum's prospects for June. They were not pretty: defense was going to take nearly 100% of the month's production...
...other ways, war's pinch tightened enough last week to raise more than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...Administration had won a quick victory during the week over the House-approved Cox amendment, which would have set up the Priorities Division separately from the defense bureaus, would have frozen into place as Priorities Director snow-crested, urbane Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and would have subjected all priorities to the final veto rulings of the Army and Navy Munitions Board...
Alcoa's Davis and OPM's Edward Stettinius, on whose judgment this testimony reflected, did not testify last week. Other testimony: > A young OPM economist, Grenville R. Holden, testified that although he had no special knowledge of aluminum production, he passed on aluminum matters. He had a distinct preference for Alcoa, had a hard time explaining why an offer by Detroit's Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corp. to build new capacity was rejected. > Said the chief Alcoa witness, senior Vice President G. R. Gibbons: "No corporation in the U.S. has . . . done more [than Alcoa...
...Representative Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga.; and bumbling Representative Carl Vinson of Milledgeville, Ga., self-appointed watchdog of the interests of the Navy's high command. Together they suddenly proposed an amendment which was designed to freeze the old and new priorities powers under OPM's Stettinius; give official status to committees of industry, and make all priority rulings finally subject to approval by the Army and Navy Munitions Board. Further: to warn against the probable coming ouster of Stettinius. appointment of anyone as Priorities Director would be subject to confirmation by the Senate...