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...civilian (among several hundred who have received it were some victims of the Boston Coconut Grove fire), but it was by far the most publicized. Within a few hours after the nation's press had picked up Patricia's story, requests for penicillin began to pour into WPB, the Army, the White House. Only a few applicants, with diseases for which penicillin has been proved effective,* got it (one who did died nonetheless...
...unenviable job of deciding who should and who should not get penicillin was Dr. Chester S. Keefer, of Boston's Evans Hospital. He is chairman of the National Research Council's committee on chemical therapy, to which WPB turned over the rationing of the drug. Because it is especially effective in treating battle-wound infections, most of the meager supply (amount: a military secret) goes to the armed forces...
...should get idle small plants to work. (Best example of how the plan is working: Manhattan retailers found a surprising number of plants in their area which could increase civilian goods production tomorrow with materials already cached in Manhattan warehouses, where they have been frozen under a months-old WPB blanket freeze order...
Last week, fast-moving Mr. Johnson, still trying to get some of these materials released by WPB while he looked for other caches, got substantial encouragement for his small business plan. WPB allocated 125,000 tons of steel in the next quarter, a boost of 25,000 tons over the current quarter, for the manufacture of such civilian items as bobby pins, needles, stoves...
Outspoken Browning quit SPAB because he could not stand the red tape. He helped Donald Nelson set up WPB, moved over to the Army in 1942. Commissioned a colonel, he joyfully went to hacking red tape in Army procurement. His first job: boiling down procurement regulations from 1,500 pages to 100. He also set up a system of periodic pricing of war contracts to give industrialists an added incentive to cut costs and boost production (TIME, March...