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...William S. Knudsen and Edward R. Stettinius...
...order, tagged "request," was issued by OPM's Priority Director Ed Stettinius. Effective March 2, he told machine-tool men, deliveries of machine tools may be made only to customers who have 0PM priority ratings, i.e., to manufacturers who will use them in defense work...
Most affected by Ed Stettinius' order was Detroit's motor industry, already reconciled to hardships for national defense...
...Commission last week announced a new arbitrato, Gano Dunn, the $1-a-year engineer (J. G. White Engineering Corp.) who had already helped arbitrate a TVA expansion fight last summer, was appointed to study the pros & cons of new steel capacity. On the spot was Defense Priorities Commissioner Ed Stettinius, who is trying as hard as any other businessman to get along with the New Deal. Last week, as a gesture toward the wishes of his steelmaking friends, he appointed a five-man steel priorities board-the first step toward rationing in steel. But as though he wished also...
With him at Baltimore was Businessman William Loren Batt, the SKF (ball bearings) president who is a Stettinius deputy commissioner. Mr. Batt was no less downright with the scrapmen than New Dealer Henderson. Said he: "I see it as your patriotic duty to receive and sell as much scrap as you can and as rapidly and cheaply as possible. . . . The President has said that the nation would be intolerant of strikes that tie up defense business. I think he would add, were it not obvious, that the nation will be equally intolerant of careless, selfish management...