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...Hastily, WPB Vice Chairman Bill Batt, who is also president of the U.S. subsidiary SKF Industries, Inc., flew to Philadelphia. Flanked by Army and Navy offi cials, he stood on a flag-bedecked plat form to assure his 8,000 workers that SKF Industries is an "American company operated by American people." The Treasury and the Alien Property Custodian, which have been quietly probing SKF Industries, chimed in with praise for its "excellent'' war record. But many a question about SKF was still unanswered...
...WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements, headless and neglected since shy, gnome-like Arthur Dare Whiteside went back to run Dun & Bradstreet three months ago, last week got a new boss and a vigorous new policy. Off went the lid which WPB clamped down six weeks ago on any sizable increase in manufacturing civilian goods...
...bottleneck is less the result of material shortages than of lack of facilities and manpower, this change will produce a small bonanza of farm equipment, household goods (e.g., irons, baby carriages) and textiles (children's and infants' clothes). More important, the new policy underlined a significant fact: WPB has at last taken a firm stand against Army & Navy demand for "everything-of -everything...
...consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation of 0PM into WPB, he became its chief of Stockpiling and Transportation. So good was his stockpiling job that WPB is now worrying about its surplus metals. Lately, he has begun playing down his academic past. Says the secretary who answers his telephone: "Mr. Elliott's office...
Medical news last week vied with news of the days before invasion. Under the aspect of eternity, the medical news might even be more important than the military. WPB announced that the wonder drug penicillin, for three years practically a monopoly of the Army & Navy, was now being manufactured in such quantity that it can be issued to civilians. Some 1,000 hospitals will be allowed to buy generous monthly quotas for distribution to patients and other hospitals as they...