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Until last week, World War IPs priorities operations had been divided and subdivided. In the Office of Production Management, priorities were theoretically managed by Edward P. Stettinius as priorities chief in charge of raw materials and commodity production; and certainly affected by Donald M. Nelson as procurement chief; Leon Henderson through price controls; John D. Biggers through processing Awhile the Interstate Commerce and Maritime Commissions supervised delivery priorities; the Bituminous Coal Division, Federal Trade and Federal Power Commissions all had dabbling hands...
...examples of such opposition: the Gano Dunn report (declaring steel capacity adequate); frequent assurances from the railroads that they can handle all the country's transportation needs without additional facilities. In this respect, Henderson's new commission represents a major setback for Director of Priorities E. R. Stettinius Jr., who never publicly questioned the Gano Dunn report, and Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd, who has consistently soft-pedaled agitation for increased railroad capacity...
...position of Stettinius and Budd is still further impaired by Henderson's power over priorities for the production and the transportation of civilian supplies. A further indication of their waning influence was given when the President mentioned Budd in press conference as one of the only two members of the original NDAC he had not taken care of in the new defense setup (the other: Chester Davis, who has just been given a Reserve Bank job in St. Louis...
...longer than two months ago, Defense Commissioner Edward R. Stettinius Jr. denounced alarmists who talked about aluminum "shortages which do not exist." But last week the Office of Production Management 1) clapped mandatory control on the supply of aluminum (also of machine tools), and 2) took steps to conserve scrap aluminum for defense...
...week. But official pressure on the producers and fabricators of tungsten, zinc, stainless steel, nickel, copper, steadily increased, their control became less and less voluntary. Mandatory priorities were surely in the offing for a big segment of U. S. industry. OPM continued cheery about the situation, just as Mr. Stettinius had been two months before. The President, discussing the steel outlook, was cheerful to the point of disingenuousness (see p. 77). But Mr. Reeves and others like him knew that the pinch...