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...effects of the Administration's creeping mobilization at first. As expected, the job of administering the new act would be divided up among the regular Government agencies (see box). Manufacturers of war goods would have to answer to a new production chief (see BUSINESS). Chairman W. Stuart Symington of the National Security Resources Board would continue to be in charge of coordinating the whole program-helping to iron out interdepartmental disputes and prescribing overall policy...
...room set aside for the National Security Council, the argument went on. Acheson's blueprint originated in the State Department's planning and policy group, headed by Banker-Economist Paul Nitze. It had the backing of Foreign Affairs Adviser W. Averell Harriman and War Mobilizer W. Stuart Symington. After two days of shirtsleeved debate, it won the endorsement of the Chiefs of Staff of the three armed services-General J. Lawton Collins of the Army, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of the Air Force, Admiral Forrest Sherman of the Navy...
...have stipulated the Mineworkers out of representation on the select Star Chamber labor committee which you designated to please Symington.* We gently advise that we will not be bound by your deliberations or commitments conducted or made in our absence. We do our own committing...
...prices will boost the cost of woolen cloth by about $1 a yard, tack an extra $5 on a man's good-quality suit by next spring. And last week the tight-squeezed wool market got ready for another pinch: the National Security Resources Board Chairman W. Stuart Symington said that the Munitions Board will start stockpiling wool for Army, Navy and Air Force uniforms...
...wanted steel for farm machinery and the Munitions Board wanted the same steel for tanks? Or if Interior's Chapman refused to divert electric power to make aluminum Sawyer wanted? Under the law, the National Security Resources Board has power to referee interdepartmental squabbles, and NSRB Chairman Stuart Symington in effect speaks with the voice of the President. But since Cabinet members have the right of appeal from his orders, it seemed likely that most critical squabbles would land right in the lap of the President...