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...memorized the Baruch report, especially the passage saying that "the program should be bulled through." Operating day & night on a devil-take-the-hindmost policy, "Bull Bill" Jeffers has butted his brow through so many walls, bellowed down so many other czars that he finally got a super-duper WPB priority overriding most other priorities...
...This week the Senators will try to push the ditch through, despite Harold Ickes. But then, if the House also changes its mind, the payoff must still come from WPB: only WPB can release the materials to build the canal, the barges, the tugs...
...WPB's flint-hard, fact-minded Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson made his first visit last week to the vast, pin-neat Willow Run bomber plant. After inspecting the mile-long assembly line, looking over production schedules, talking to production bosses, he gave out a confident statement. Said he: "The Willow Run plant is on the beam. . . . Willow Run will be in full production, turning out 500 planes a month, by the time the next snow flies...
...ends, Frank Russell will resign his directorships, open an office in Washington. Already he had been offered more than one Government job. Always before his good friends in the Government-Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air, Artemus L. Gates of the Navy, and Ted Wright of WPB-have advised him to stay away from Washington, to keep close to the production line. This time they gave him the green light. His job: to help cut red tape between Government and the aircraft industry as effectively as individual companies have learned to break bottlenecks in their own operations...
...order was needed. Ever since WPB halted civilian truck production a year ago, the demand for good used trucks has been whopping. Prices soared 150-200% above normal; speculators bought trucks right & left, cached them away for even higher prices; fleet operators wrung their hands as speculators wrung their pocketbooks. Even after OPA's order, some trucksters wondered how long the brake would hold. Special rules already permit extra charges for such parts as oversize axles, tires, special brakes, etc. Thus, while a truck may be pegged at $675, the extra heater may cost $500-or no sale...