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Charles E. Wilson,* the strong man of WPB, went to the White House to resign, as he had twice before in the past nine months. He had a personal reconversion problem of his own: he wanted to get back to the presidency of General Electric. And he was sick & tired of months of WPB haggling and sniping. Once more Franklin Roosevelt begged him to stay on as WPB's executive vice chairman-at least until Germany fell...
...left . . . with renewed inspiration," Charlie Wilson said later. The inspiration had a very practical basis: the same day Franklin Roosevelt announced that WPB Chairman Don Nelson was off to China "for several months." Two things seemed clear: Don Nelson had been exiled; Charlie Wilson was now in charge of WPB. The President had clearly taken Wilson's side in the long-smoldering Nelson-Wilson dispute...
...seem to be clear even to Franklin Roosevelt. Nelson's friends pictured him as the friend of little business and reconversion, bravely battling the Army, the Navy, and Charlie Wilson. Wilson, however, insisted that it was he who eight months ago had drawn up WPB's only full-scale reconversion plans...
...first time last week businessmen were eager to fill out Government forms. Within 24 hours of WPB's announcement on Aug. 15 permitting production of 79 classes of civilian goods (TIME, July 24), WPB field offices ran out of blanks on which manufacturers could apply for the privilege...
...this latest rubber crisis, WPB appealed for an immediate increase in tire production-a full 30%, now when the need is greatest. Could Akron meet...