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Regulation No. 1, announced by Ed Stettinius the day his powers were taken over by SPAB, should have been the first rule of priorities long ago. It provides the framework for a real, working system of control by: 1) requiring manufacturers to accept defense orders no matter how busy and prosperous they are with civilian work, 2) prohibiting accumulation of inventories beyond normal levels...
...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...