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...When the WPB realignment loomed Secretary Knox called up Hiland Batcheller in Pittsburgh, told him a Government plane would be there at noon to take him to Washington. The reason for this urgency was not hard to guess. Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part...
Peace With the Army? WPB'S shake-up looked as if it might end the long-standing fight between Donald Nelson and the Army (TIME, Aug. 3) by the simple process of merger...
...WPB will not necessarily succeed where the old WPB failed. Many a problem is still unsolved: the deadwood which Donald Nelson had not yet cleared out of WPB's staff, the development of a new system to ease raw-material shortages, the fact that WPB-which has no control over manpower or prices-is intrinsically a poor substitute for a genuine Economic High Command. And it still remains to be seen whether even really top-drawer industrial executives can get Washington's huge bureaucracy to function-or will be able to put up temperamentally with its futility...
...WPB is not yet quite the agency to run the war effort, it is better than anything that had come before...
...year vice chairman of WPB, with "top production authority in the war program," Charles Erwin Wilson, president of General Electric...