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...competitors at the same table, the automen sketched in the dark picture. C. E. Wilson, white-thatched General Motors president, estimated that by Jan. 1 G.M. would have only 17% of the machine tools needed to turn out 50% of its prewar car production (the quota tentatively set by WPB). The rest of the tools are not even promised until next June 1. K. T. Keller, the chunky, soft-voiced boss of Chrysler Corp., deftly added some dark shading. "Before Chrysler can build its first car, it must clear 17,000,000 square feet of floor space . . . install...
Last month, when the President dispatched Don to China, he told Julius A. ("Cap") Krug to "take over WPB and run it." Last week, when reporters asked if Nelson would come back to WPB, Cap Krug, busily reorganizing WPB up & down, answered in a hurt voice: "That's not a nice question...
...Chinese junket removed Don from Washington in time to avert an explosive feud inside WPB (TIME, Sept. 4). Otherwise, the trip's purpose was something of a mystery. But Donald Nelson had bustled happily for 16 days through Chungking's mud and rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China...
While we are on the subject of basking in the sunlight of the professorial smile, Don Nelson, by virtue of having a very famous uncle (not the WPB chief) is the fairhaired...
...soon as WPB gives the word, the airlines will begin to get the planes. Douglas is making a military version of the DC-4, will build the DC-6 for the Army...