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...week for each shaver. Out cropped a lush, thickety growth of feature stories and beard pictures; the Smith Brothers sprouted back into the news; radio comics combed their files frantically for beard jokes, from B for beavers, to T for tuft. But the full text of WPB's order proved the best joke of all. As late as 1940 one blade a week per man was all the nation used anyway...
...WPB slew a red-tape dragon last week. The dragon was called "layering." This is how it worked: if a toiler in WPB's vineyard wanted to get in touch with an Army procurement man, say, he was expected to write a memo which filtered through layers of top executives up and over to the War Department, down through layers again to the procurement man he wanted to reach. Then his answer would boggle back through the same layers, days or weeks later, smothered with seals, O.K.s, stamped approvals and question marks. Henceforth he had WPB and Army instructions...
...dabbling in the food problem, with well-confused results. The Agriculture Department's sugar section and Leon Henderson's Office of Price Administration, among others, played with sugar rationing. Nearly everyone had a hand in the fats & oils market: Agriculture, OPA, State Department, Board of Economic Warfare, WPB's food section, Jesse Jones's Defense Supplies Corp., even the British Purchasing Commission...
...McNutt manpower-mobilization plan was dead, buried in the graveyard file on Mr. Roosevelt's desk. Both Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt and WPB's Sidney Hillman had wanted to be the head man. Logical person to mobilize the country's labor force was the Labor Secretary: Madam Perkins was obviously unsuited. President Roosevelt could have replaced her-but labor leaders, after hours of haggling over who should be her successor, failed to agree; neither A.F. of L. nor C.I.O. chiefs would take a man from the other side. Indications were that no agency would...
...general is Matthew Fox, balding (at 31), egg-shaped vice president of Universal Pictures who went to Washington a month ago to trouble-shoot for Bob Nathan's WPB Planning Board (TIME, March 2). The committees in 46 States who are collecting old rubber, paper, rags, metal-above all, iron and steel-are doing earnest work, but Matt Fox concluded that more was needed...