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...czar has a small staff of 94. His chief assistants are General Counsel Ed Prichard, onetime law clerk to Justice Frankfurter, physically slimmed down from his baby elephant proportions; ex-WPB planner Bob Nathan, who lends a New Deal tone to the office and an appearance of Neanderthal man to the staff; and mild, quiet Paul L. Kelley, Vinson confidant for 20 years, one of whose duties is to make out Tax Expert Vinson's income-tax return (Vinson's salary...
Will the rationing of autos, refrigerators, and many other civilian items be necessary after Japan quits? Last week, the Wall Street Journal got its fingers on a confidential War Production Board report and announced that WPB is planning a postwar rationing system. Actually, WPB's survey was prepared for a special contingency: that Japan might be defeated in perhaps six months, before reconverted plants "are in full production and before military cutbacks have become fully effective. In that event, said WPB, the rationing prospects are as follows...
...motormakers were not happy with these quotas. Ford, for one, complained that its quota this fall would provide only four cars for each of its dealers, whereas the fewer dealers of some smaller companies would have many more. This kind of quota trouble should not affect many businesses. WPB plans to free members of most industries to turn out as much as they want on a catch-as-catch-can basis. This will not be possible with autos, because the industry is so greedy for steel that other industries would be crowded out. Nor will it be possible with...
Refrigerators. The War Production Board handed out priorities to nine companies to make 227,709 refrigerators, 155,797 washing machines, in the third quarter of this year. WPB expects to grant more priorities in the next Jew weeks to bring total third-quarter production of refrigerators to 265,000, total washing machines to 350,000. The price of the refrigerators, said WPB, will be "equal to or lower than" the average prewar levels...
Back to the Hills. In 1942, WPB banned U.S. gold mining because the U.S. did not need gold, and badly needed trained miners to produce copper and other vitally necessary metals. That situation has not changed materially, but the political situation has. Under strong and well-placed pressure, WPB last week set July 1 as the date gold-mine operators may resume the profitable business of digging gold out of the Rockies-to be reburied at Fort Knox...