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...plan in essence: to pick one authority to take steel over from WPB's inadequate Requirements Committee, to force Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and Civilian Supply to sit down and divide up the steel with no chiseling afterwards for special "emergencies." Most important: when the inevitable conflicts arise, they are to be appealed directly to a final court: Donald Nelson...
...WPB at long last is ready to put the profit motive to work to get the big copper companies to increase their output of this bottleneck metal...
...review its requirements carefully, it will find the shortages not as bad as feared. The pinch has been exaggerated." Yet last week, for lack of materials, WTright Aeronautical had to shut down one 3,000-man department of its huge Paterson (N.J.) engine plant for two days; last week WPB admitted that the available supply of steel in June was 5,690,000 tons v. a total demand for 11,075,000 tons. A critical cross section of U.S. war production was working way below capacity for lack of materials. To stop this-through better materials scheduling and through building...
Purp or no Purp, the weekly meeting of WPB's strategic Requirements Committee is a solemn but frequently fantastic scene: one admiral (Navy), one lieutenant colonel (Maritime Commission), one general, at least one bigwig apiece from State, BEW, Lend-Lease and WPB's Civilian Supply section meet to battle over the absolutely minimum material needs of each absolutely essential division...
...facsimile of Germany's plan-a warrant system whereby each war contract, when made, includes warrants to obtain specific quantities of materials at the specific times when they are needed. This is vertical allocation v. Purp's horizontal allocation. The Navy is so enthusiastic about it that WPB is going to test it out in the radio industry, starting this week...