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Early this spring a certain Robert R. Guthrie resigned from a WPB post because, he said, WPB $1-a-year men generally were putting a brake on all-out war production by resisting all-out conversion of civilian industries to war work. In particular, Guthrie named Philip D. Reed, $120,000-a-year chairman of General Electric, $1-a-year head of the Bureau of Industry Branches. WP Boss Donald Nelson, embarrassed by the fuss, asked the Truman Committee to investigate...
...sleuthing-in fact, even as Guthrie went away mad -conversion had ceased to be a problem. Civilian production had long since been sliced down, although consumers had not yet really felt it much. But Senator Truman, who likes sensations, was adamant. For greater efficiency in the future, he argued, WPB needed a shaking up anyhow. He issued his report...
Nelson would not abolish the $1-a-year system, but last week he was ready to joggle some elbows around WPB. That, reportedly, was one reason why he asked Truman to hold up his blast...
...more than a month, at Nelson's invitation, trim, grey-headed Dr. Luther Gulick, Federal trouble shooter, had been peering into WPB's innards. Dr. Gulick has already made recommendations: 1) to clarify authorities, sometimes so fuzzy now that industry branch chiefs are not sure whom they can fire; 2) reorganize the Production Requirements Plan ("Purp"), which after July 1 will finally be charged with the monstrous job of controlling all critical materials, from primary producer to factory...
Somebody was radically wrong about sugar. Refiners and producers urged OPA and WPB to loosen up. Why ration sugar when warehouses bulged with the stuff...