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Last week Secretary Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, said unfinished Canol "is worth nothing and will have no value after the war," declared it "ought to be junked now." A WPB expert asserted that the 550-mile pipeline being laid between the oilfield and the refinery at Whitehorse in the Yukon will never function effectively because the mountainous wilderness it traverses is too cold...
...make the tools with which to build the machines which would make the war material. This was the OPM phase. In the next stage (SPAB and WPB) the great new plants quickly ran the stockpiles down into shortages, and new plants and machinery had to be built to meet these shortages. This terrific expansion, in turn (in conjunction with the draft), used up all the U.S. manpower...
...last September Boeing Aircraft's Flying Fortress production was lagging badly for lack of 9,000 workers. That was the payoff: Army, Navy, WPB, WMC, industry, labor et al. publicly and simultaneously converged on the manpower bottleneck. They all worked on the "West Coast" for job priorities and allocation...
Main factors: WPB had learned about bottlenecks the hard way, from earlier struggles with plants and materials. WPB's Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson personally intervened in the manpower mess, personally toured some of the bad spots, personally supervised emergency measures to heal them...
...WPB persuaded the Army & Navy to do what they said when they said they would cancel new orders, however urgent, in labor-short areas. West Coast industry began believing when the slow-moving Navy pulled a big contract out of West Coast shipyards last month...