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...President's two 'meetings with the press were not lively. Nobody brought up the subject of paper matches. Hearstling Bob Considine had written in a feature series that the President "won't permit three cigarets to be lighted on one match." Next day WPB asked the U.S. to save paper, forget this superstition...
...walnut-paneled, richly furnished office in the banklike Chamber of Commerce building a block from the White House, he not only runs the Chamber but also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about a third of the year with him in his Mayflower Hotel apartment, the rest in Spokane where their daughters Harriet, 17, and Elizabeth...
...draft bit deep into WPB itself. WPB asked the War Manpower Commission to defer 245 of its draft-age employes. WMC, which passes on all Government deferment applications, turned down all but seven...
...among the deferred seven was WPB's No. 3 executive, big, hardheaded Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, 36, father of two. "Cap" Krug sparkplugs WPB as vice chairman in charge of production programs. He learned power technique inside out as a kind of general manager for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He also learned how to get along with industrialists-and Congressmen. This wisdom he has needed in Washington. On WPB he became chairman of the potent requirements committee, and director of the Office of War Utilities; is indisputably one of Washington's genuine key men. Chairman Don Nelson says...
...Gave Henry Kaiser a pat on the back for his Permanente project which, despite WPB pessimism, has produced 19,000,000 lb. and has "future possibilities...