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...Said one WPBster bluntly: "I don't see where the West Coast's holler about V-E day comes in. It will keep slightly more war contracts, but with a pretty good shake on reconversion its position ought to be pretty good. But some Eastern cities where the bulk of the contracts will be canceled at once will be up against it. They'd be only too glad to have some of that West Coast war production...
...Policy. WPBster Krug was more specific. As a starter, he junked the carefully nurtured policy of WPB's China-junketing chairman Don Nelson. Boss Nelson had held that WPB, which wound up the U.S. economy for war, should unwind it, coil by coil. Said Krug: let industry unwind itself into peacetime production in its own way. "Our private economy has to carry the ball. . . . It's not WPB's function to make work but to remove obstacles ... so that the ingenuity of management and know-how of the worker can go ahead. . . . There...
...these words, WPBster Krug got ready to move WPB out of the driver's seat. After V-E day, WPB's job will center on the comparatively small segment of industry still turning out materiel for the Japanese war. The bulk of industry will...
...Said one WPBster, sniffing the air of sweet reasonableness that suddenly filled Washington: "The password is love...
...exodus from Washington has become so apparent that WPB Boss Don Nelson has quietly started a drive to recruit new men from industry. But Charlie Wilson is a real bellwether. As long as he stays, many another WPBster will remain. When he goes, the rush will...