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...rift spread wider between the nation's armed forces and the one civilian agency which supplies them with arms. The military cried aloud for Nelson's resignation, for appointment of the man who saw the job and did it in World War I-grey old Bernard Mannes Baruch...
Anatomy of Conflict. From the Army & Navy Munitions Board Nelson had taken Ferdinand Eberstadt, former investment banker, friend of Bernard Baruch, firm believer in the doctrine that fighting men best know fighting needs. In a few short weeks, Vice Chairman Eberstadt worked out a master plan to get scarce materials to the right war factories in the right quantities at the right time. Army & Navy were solidly behind...
Fact 4. One of the three conflicting programs must suffer: rubber, escort vessels, or high-octane gas. Jimmy Byrnes has decided-wisely, but after a long delay -that the last 585,000 tons of capacity in the Baruch rubber recommendations can best be spared...
...this quarrel, Jeffers was on the losing side. But the fault was not his. He had clear marching orders: to carry out the Baruch program, down to the last valve and pressure gauge. Like any good soldier, he was ready to keep marching until he dropped-or until his chief gave him new orders...
...Donald Nelson, torn between his natural urge to compromise and his belated resolution to "get tough," had reorganized WPB again-and left it teetering on a higher precipice than ever before. No plain citizen could hope now to follow the tortured quarreling inside WPB; even Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, out of his experience as World War I's one-man production board, could only shake his old grey head and gloom: "Tinkering, tinkering, always tinkering. Patching. They have no overall plan...