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...even Nelson's closest friends conceded that he had often been too easygoing, too loth to issue harsh commands when even a second's delay was fatal. The metal that poured into refrigerators and race-track grandstands six months ago, before WPB got around to calling a halt, was now irretrievably gone. And Nelson sat right where the blame, deserved and undeserved, would all fall...
Authority in Deadlock. But no one could say yet who would win the struggle. General Somervell had licked every job he ever tackled; on his record, he was a hard man to stop. But WPB's biggest job now was to allocate raw materials impartially for military and civilian needs. Well might Donald Nelson claim that no Army man should umpire a game that the Army was playing. And allocation of raw materials was a staggeringly difficult task; neither the Army nor anybody else had yet produced a plan better than WPB...
...back as last October the Department of Agriculture had warned of the present storage shortage; few heeded until Pearl Harbor made sober farmers realize that foreign markets were gone. Then it was too late for many to get nails, tin and lumber for sheds. Commodity Credit Corp., with WPB priorities, let contracts for 60,000 prefabricated wood and metal bins to be sold to farmers, enough to hold 110,000,000 bushels of wheat. But the contractors fell behind schedule...
...carping crackpot made this shattering statement last week, but a man who ought to know. It came, in fact, from the head of WPB's Conservation & Substitution Division, mild, white-thatched Harvey A. Anderson. Before he came to Washington he was the ace waste eliminator for American Telephone & Telegraph; now he is a thorn in the side of Army & Navy. Last week, with his big boss Don Nelson engaged in his own grapple with the services over scarce materials, Harvey Anderson was mad enough to blow...
Harvey Anderson's charge that bad management is the real cause of the metals crisis was backed up by no less an expert than Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to the Department of Agriculture, now on leave to WPB to study the steel shortage. Behind closed doors Ezekiel told a subcommittee of the House that faulty allocation of steel, rather than any serious general shortage, forced the Government's sensational decision to cancel its order for 200 sorely needed Liberty ships from Higgins Corp. of New Orleans (TIME, July...