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Prepare for Peace. So plans for cautious removal of controls were scrapped; if Washington was not ready for reconversion, industry was. WPB handed out priorities for new machines for civilian goods, for new plants. "Cap" Krug himself, who had once hankered for tight controls, announced: "The danger confronting us is that we will overlook the natural resilience of the economy. Temporary dislocations are inevitable. We must not be stampeded into elaborate controls...
...Timesman is round, greying, 43-year-old George Walter Streator, new to daily newspapering but a veteran free lance writer, teacher and labor organizer for Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers. Lately he had worked for WPB's labor division. The Times, in hiring Streator for general reporting, followed the example of four neighbors : the Herald Tribune, Post and Brooklyn Eagle, each of which has one Negro staffer, and PM, which...
...Penicillin, so plentiful last summer that manufacturers got permission to put it in tablets and capsules, was back on the priority list as production fell farther & farther behind demand. The Civilian Production Administration (successor to WPB) figures that production is already 20% short of filling current needs, will set aside 40% for hospitals until further notice...
Wrong Place. A fine of $148,000, biggest ever imposed for violation of WPB regulations, was levied against the Weirton Steel Co. in Wheeling Federal Court. The company used priorities obtained for a company hospital to renovate and air condition a country club used by Weirton executives...
Inviting Attention. The Navy's star witness, able Secretary Jim Forrestal, in vited the committee's attention to an alternative plan drawn for him by Ferdinand Eberstadt (investment banker and onetime vice chairman of WPB...