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Just before the curtain rose on last week's performance of Tannhäuser at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, a wheel chair was carefully pushed up to the wings. From it, with great gentleness, a husky stagehand and a medieval huntsman lifted the frail body of a bravely smiling diva, deposited her tenderly on the cushions of a shell-backed fairy-tale divan. Amid a crowd of pirouetting nymphs and satyrs the reclining diva, her blond hair sparkling with stage diamonds, was slowly wheeled on the stage...
...entire area is heated by exhaust steam from the Cambridge Electric Light Company. The steam is carried by several miles of underground pipe extending from the Business School, through the Yard, to the laboratories beyond Memorial Hall. Because the Electric Company burns coal, no shortage is predicted for the user future...
...odds were that Nelson now would adopt something approaching Taylor's steel quota plan which would give one single authority power to divide the amount of steel available and give each user a quota for keeps. It was even likely that Nelson would apply similar quota systems to other commodities and toss the report-ridden, unwieldy old Production Requirements Plan ("Purp") out the window. If so, Taylor would have accomplished by quitting what he had not been able to do by working in Washington...
...carloadings and power production dipped slightly, but steel mills boomed ahead. Last week they turned out 1,664,600 tons of ingot, lifting June output to the highest in U.S. history. Thanks to soaring production in the past six months, shipbuilding (Naval and Merchant) is now the No. 1 user of steel, this year will use about 10,000,000 tons of plates and shapes-roughly one-sixth of the total fabricated steel output...
Only amateurs in Government, said he, grinning, talk of putting a pooh-bah, a Tsar or an Akhund of Swat in charge of national defense. No one man knows enough for the job. Better, said he, to have on the board management (Knudsen), labor (Hillman) and the user-buyers of national defense products (Navy's Knox, Army's Stimson). Under their four-man chairmanship (if it works that way) will be planned the three big Ps of industrial defense: 1) Production, 2) Purchasing, 3) Priorities. The National Defense Advisory Commission will go on planning, advising...