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...Lord Beaverbrook, the Napoleonic little publisher whom Prime Minister Churchill put in charge of airplane production and procurement, announced that since May 11, with workmen functioning in twelve-hour shifts seven days' a week, British warplanes were coming out 62% faster than before, that all equipment losses of the Flanders campaign were replaced, that his buyers were snapping up every bit of U. S. product available. Shortage' of air-power kept Allied expenditure of men & ships carefully calculated...
...Politics Adviser Brendan Bracken, jerky, bespectacled, carrot-haired, is chairman of the London Financial News and an intimate of Lord Beaverbrook. As such he replaced Economics Adviser Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's Man Friday and chief traveling companion on the great appeasement junkets. A scathing critic of Munich, Mr. Bracken since break of war used his Financial News to harass the now ousted Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon-created Viscount Simon last week-for not spending fast enough on British armament. Conservative Party whips used to call Brendan Bracken "The Red-Headed Beast," last week found...
...late hour for Britain to ask miracles of aircraft production. But Lord Beaverbrook, a friend of Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair and a buddy of U. S. Ambassador Joe Kennedy, wasted no time lamenting. He got to work. The study of his palatial Stornoway House in London became his Ministry. He launched a lightning survey of the present status of British aircraft production, ripped out orders which brought aircraft-factory heads scrambling from all over the kingdom for lightning interviews with The Beaver. Most important of all, pals Max and Joe conferred regarding acceleration of U. S. aircraft shipments...
...tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week: I-Tuesday he drafted England's No. 2 hustler, Lord Beaverbrook, to head a new Ministry of Aircraft Production, the Allies' greatest armament need (see below). ∧ Wednesday he completed his Government...
Laborite Herbert Morrison, since last week Britain's Minister of Supply, is the most bristling of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's new brooms (with the possible exception of Lord Beaverbrook). He earned his job, the crucial one of gearing Britain's industries to war production, partly by lambasting his predecessor for inefficiency and corruption. Britain's steel industry is run by the Steel Control Committee, a semi-Governmental carbon copy of the British Iron & Steel Federation. It allocates production quotas among mills in Britain, most of which are old and technologically out of date. In sheet...