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Until recently chief of the cost analysis section of WPB, Saunders exploded the current rumors that the government has "released cost accountants like a swarm of locusts" to prey on business, occupying their time and decreasing their production...
...Newark, Samuel Freedman was out raged: "The South is still fighting the Civil War." He called WPB, which sent a man to protest. Snapped Judge Gower: "WPB isn't running this court." Harold Weston thought it best to pay the fine and hurry home. The Negroes were released...
...WPB Chairman Donald Nelson declared that the problem had to be faced, the decision had to be made?and soon. He and the Manpower Commission's chairman, Paul Vories McNutt, had told a House Committee that the U.S. must screw itself up to the mandatory control of all civilian manpower. But they knew that legislation alone would not solve the problem. The first, the basic decision was on the size of the U.S. Army...
...WPB certainly had the impression that for the first time?"the very first time"?it knew exactly what the military expected to be done in a given span. For the first time?"the very first time"?WPB considered that it had a specific, intelligible, practicable schedule of requested production, reasonably keyed to the actual production capacity of the U.S. The men in charge of war production were even able to visualize an overall, master plan for 1943?including a marked increase in the dollar-volume of aircraft, a great increase in the number of heavy, long-range bombers...
Five months ago WPB ordered all large units in the stove industry to stop producing stoves and start producing nothing but war goods by July 31, leaving all stove production (on a standardized "victory model" basis) to companies which formerly had less than a $2,000,000 annual gross. Now their gross is still smaller: for lack of materials only about half a dozen of 150-odd smaller companies are now making victory stoves at all. When last counted (late in July) there were some 2,000,000 stoves or about six months' normal supply still in retail stocks...