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...strictly industrial research (materials, etc.), WPB has another agency, the Office of Production Research and Development...
...press conference in his tulip-bedecked Washington office, H.J. said he had a green light from the Maritime Commission, but none from WPB, WMC, or anyone else. Asked where the steel would come from, he said: "I don't think they're just going on stockpiling it." Asked about manpower, he said: "We will use existing personnel; if they leave us, we'll recruit others." Forthwith A.P. reported from Portland, Ore. that Kaiser recruiters were seeking 15,200 more workers in the Midwest, the Southwest, and even in Washington, D.C. Asked about Army & Navy permission, he said...
...Agencies Appropriations Bill, the OSRD got 12 million dollars more than the combined totals granted to the WPB, the ODT, the Petroleum Administrator for War, the WLB, the Office of Economic Stabilization, and the Office of War Mobilization. Congress didn't cut a penny of OSRD Director Vannevar Bush's $135,982,500 budget. (Bush is also president of Carnegie Institution in Washington...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...
Irony. This is the year when the railroads had hoped that their problems would ease. They had hoped to get through the war without a serious car shortage. For 1944 WPB has promised steel enough to build 60,000 freight cars and 1,200 locomotives. Pullman has delivered the last of 1,200 troop sleepers...