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...public last week heard the chilling facts of fuel-oil rationing: why (lack of transportation), how (coupon books), how much (to heat homes to 65 degrees). But WPBoss Donald Nelson still kept to himself two other vital details: when (OPA experts guessed Oct. 15) and where (Nelson's special rationing committee week before had agreed on all States east of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, but this was not certain...
...goods output continues upward; WPBoss Don Nelson last week reported July output 16% over June to another record. But in many industries output is headed down. Lumber output runs 15% below the 1941-42 peaks; paperboard production teeters 32% below the January high; retail sales are below recent levels and barely equal to last year...
Henry J. Kaiser, the big, bald miracle man from the West Coast, will get a chance to build his cargo planes. In his bulging brief case this week was a written promise from WPBoss Donald Nelson, authorizing him to go ahead- to make 100 of his projected 70-ton transports- provided he could show that he could build them without taking materials away from the aircraft industry. He had Nelson's promise to make the number 500 as soon as the program proved practicable. And he had another, bigger promise: eventually he would get a crack at building fabulous...
Philip Francis Maguire, 37, is a genial, rock-jawed Irishman who went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...
...Builder Kaiser, rolling swiftly about the town, testified before two Senate committees, conferred with WPBoss Donald Nelson, spoke at a National Press Club luncheon, held a two-hour press conference for women reporters in his chart-littered suite at the Shoreham Hotel. The women were fascinated by a man who talked facts to them, who did not talk down to them. His proposal even crashed the society page of the Washington Post, under that paper's new wartime policy of writing social notes almost exclusively about people active in the war effort...