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...only been clutched to the bosom of the masses but has been nominated as a genius by fragments of the intelligentsia. Britain's Princess Elizabeth is a "slobbering" Abner fan; so are Novelist John Steinbeck, Comedian Harpo Marx, Lawyer Morris Ernst and NSRB Boss W. Stuart Symington...
...National Security Resources Board, under hustling Chairman W. Stuart Symington, last week announced a broad policy to speed up plant expansion, thus make more materials available for both rearmament and civilian goods. Under NSRB's policy, manufacturers will be able to make sizable tax savings by writing off new plants in five years (instead of as long as 50 at present), providing NSRB approves them as necessary for the defense program. Such approval would probably not be hard to get for many companies. Said Symington: a firm does not have to be making arms to take advantage...
...Stuart Symington...
...greatest howl of all came not from the producers or buyers but from the Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther. Said he in a letter to NSRBoss Stuart Symington: the new credit restrictions would create "mass unemployment before there is enough defense work and take materials out of civilian production before they are needed in defense production. They are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder . . . The Federal Reserve Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has . . . made a stab in the dark and the knife is in the backs...
...Faith!" Stu Symington then put the heat on FRB to tighten up regulation W (which covers credit on all installment purchases). He wanted it made almost as stringent as during World War II. FRB fell in line. The new regulations...