Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Tall (6 ft. 3), hulking (250 Ib.) Reese Taylor, chief of WPB's Iron & Steel Branch finally got fed up. He had joined WPB late in May with high hopes: though steel allocation was a mess, he figured he could make sense of it, and he thought that his title carried enough authority to make his rulings stick. He went to work ably and thoroughly to find out where steel was going, why there wasn't enough. But forthright Reese Taylor reckoned without WPB's labyrinthine channels of authority. He did not know about the crew...
...wheels of WPB ground too slowly for impatient Reese Taylor, who thought no time should be lost in winning the war. Even when he got an O.K. from Boss Donald Nelson, his plans sometimes bogged down in the layers of "advisers." When his steel branch was gibbeted in an unauthorized report by a $5,600-a-year WPB hireling, it was about the last straw. Last week, when his new steel quota plan (TIME, Aug. 24) seemed to have been lost in a shuffle of compromise around Donald Nelson, Reese Taylor up and quit...
Taylor's departure left a big unfilled niche in WPB, but it pointed up the problem, made it more imperative than ever for Donald Nelson to act as tough as he was now talking, to get rid of well-intentioned but inadequate subordinates and replace them with tough, efficient...
Britain's Precept. A yardstick to show how far WPB and the entire nation must go before they are really all-out in World War II, was provided last week by Donald Nelson's British counterpart, Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Captain Lyttelton made an international broadcast not intended as an invidious comparison but as a reminder that Britain's war effort is one of the United Nations' great assets. He cited two statistics...
...Lyttelton's figures showed, was catching up. But it still had a long; way to go-and many a change would have to come in WPB before the goal was reached...