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...need for a unified, administrative agency with full authority is vital and immediate. At present WPB allocates only to those mills who can't get scrap--other mills buy what and where they can. With capable direction, industry-wide allocation of scrap could be substituted for the present haphazard system. Systematic requisitioning of all possible sources of steel could augment the current scrap collection. Robert Moses, ex-director of the New York City scrap drive, has developed the possibilities along this line with his recent detailed estimate that fifty thousand tons of unneeded steel construction exist in that city alone...
Allocation, especially, has suffered from the crippling haze of direction. With the WPB failing to present a concrete, authoritative program, no attempt has been made to equate demand with the limited steel supply available. Restrained by no long-range plans, the armed forces have naturally made desirable but unfeasible demands. Typical was the month of July in which the army wanted three times the steel it was eventually forced to accept. Bitter haggling and excessive red tape has been the inevitable result. Moreover, delays and shortages have forced the adoption of an elaborate priorities system. Need for an AAA rating...
Four agencies have quibbled on the why and wherefores of still production. The WPB, the Bureau of Industrial Conservation, the OPA, and since August, War Materials, Inc., a division of the RFC, have all dabbled, with resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap--regardless of cost--the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., a division of the RFC, have all dabbled, with resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap-regardless of cost-the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., adds administrative problems to the already crowded field. Lacking the power to condemn needed items as well as the jurisdiction over...
These tough words came last week from WPB's Industrial Conservation chief, shy philanthropic Lessing Rosenwald, as he announced a new all-out drive for industry's "dormant scrap." Donald Nelson backed up his chief junkman in even tougher talk: "The one thing we must not do," he said, "is to pack machinery and equipment away permanently or in grease against the end of the war." Every existing piece of machinery must be used now for war production, for replacement parts for other machines, or for scrap...
...people who normally supply, produce, sell and repair automobiles. Against such a Brobdingnagian reconstruction problem the immediate question of who was to stand the loss if a $4,000 machine is melted down for $40 worth of scrap seems Lilliputian, but this could give WPB a very bad time too-as WPB well knows...