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...Edward R. Stettinius, whose Industrial Materials division was caught napping on almost every major defense material: steel, aluminum, copper, ad infinitum; and whose eagerness to please everybody had almost wrecked the priority system by first giving full priorities to almost everyone and then forgetting to set up any enforcement plan until last month...
...American trade and cultural relations. For months Rockefeller has told President Roosevelt that the U.S. would have to keep up its exports to Latin America-defense program or no-or take a back seat to the Axis. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles agreed. But OPM's Ed Stettinius and OPACS' Leon Henderson stood pat against any exports that would take materials away from defense or essential civilian needs. Now the Presidential nod has gone to Rockefeller (partly because a Nazi freighter recently slipped through the blockade, delivered an airplane and parts which Brazil's Vasp line...
Topping this organization will still be the Divisions of Purchases (Donald Marr Nelson), Production (John David Biggers) and Priorities (Ed Stettinius). Each division head will continue to have the final say in his field, will work closely with each of the Commodity Sections. All three will get added work. Biggers will also head the Commodity Sections responsible for steel, aluminum, magnesium, paper, pulp and chemicals. Nelson will boss the sections where purchasing problems are most important, such as textiles, food, drugs and clothing. Silver-topped Ed Stettinius will also take on rubber, copper, zinc, similar materials, but will continue...
...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...
Last week's report made such bad reading that even habitually sanguine Franklin Roosevelt could think of no comment beyond predicting general priorities on steel. Next day priorities came. OPM's Stettinius announced that he and OPACS's Leon Henderson would allocate 75% of steel production (the share not now going to defense and Britain) among competing civilian needs. Graceful living was clearly due for another shock...