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...serve as vice chairman of WPB in full charge of production, he named equally able, equally eminent Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson,* president of General Electric, an always well-run company...
...head of WPB's vital Iron & Steel Branch-the disgusted resignation of whose boss, big Reese Taylor (TIME, Sept. 7), helped precipitate Nelson's action-he picked Hiland Garfield Batcheller, head of small but potent Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp...
These three appointments amount to the installation of a new top management in WPB. To neat, hardboiled, balding Ferd Eberstadt, who has done a top-flight job of handling military schedules and priorities on the Munitions Board, falls the key job of setting WPB's sights on all production except rubber. To factory-wise Charlie Wilson falls the job of meeting the goals that Eberstadt sets. And to Steelman Batcheller falls the particular responsibility of meeting the key goal, steel production...
...Navy James Forrestal and Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. Working with Forrestal and Patterson on the Munitions Board, he has tried to use the same straight-line tactics that Bernard M. Baruch applied to World War I, has sided with the Army in its arguments with WPB but has always believed that the right men could make WPB work. Now he will get his chance to prove...
...Alloy. The appointment of tall dapper Hiland Garfield Batcheller, 57 to boss WPB's important Iron & Steel Branch seemed to make certain that WPB would throw its hopelessly confusing priority system out the window, set up a rigid allocations plan under which each manufacturer will get a quota that sticks...