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Threatened with a potential lag in essential war production, grave-faced officials of WMC, WPB, Selective Service and Army & Navy met hurriedly last week in a Washington office. Their problem: to devise rapid ways & means of giving the nation a new "sense of urgency." The trouble was partly of their own making. For two full years the congenitally optimistic U.S. people had been soaking up the sunny predictions of official and semiofficial spokesmen. Samples...
...seemed that the once easygoing boss of WPB had become Franklin Roosevelt's favorite emissary...
...this time, OPA is backed by WPB, whose potent weapon is its power to allocate cloth. WPB is ready to divert materials to manufacturers who will agree to turn out cheap clothing. They have already allocated 40,000,000 yards to make the infants' and children's clothes called for under the OPA plan...
...WPB finally answered the pleas for help of the Office of Defense Transportation, jittery over the truck shortage. WPB authorized the manufacture, quarterly, of 10,000 light civilian trucks, which have not been made since February 1942. WPB further raised the hopes of civilians for more durable goods by placing mechanical refrigerators, which have been out of production since April 1942, on the spot authorization list. But it does not intend to release materials for them until early next year, at least. And most of them will go to the armed forces...
...WPB Boss Krug warned the U.S. that this would not mean expansion of the spot plan. There is no hope for that until the military's sudden demands for increased materiel, such as heavy artillery and small-arms ammunition, are met. He has refused demands of the armed services to ban the manufacture of civilian goods in areas where manpower shortages are greatest. Instead, WPB issued a new ruling this week which permits civilian goods to be made only if "war production is on schedule, is kept on schedule and is able to meet the demands of increased schedules...