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After weeks of crying wolf, Manly Fleischmann, boss of the National Production Authority, last week trotted out his Controlled Materials Plan. Its howl seemed to be worse than its bite. Starting July 1, CMP will tightly control all steel, copper and aluminum in defense production, thus put an end to the tangle of stopgap priorities NPA has used up to now. But civilian producers will be untouched by CMP under the present plan. They will be left to scramble for the metals that are left over, but whether the metals will be the bulk-or only a small part...
...make sure that defense needs are met, said Wilson, "a form of controlled materials plan . . . will be placed into effect later in the year." Under CMP, materials will probably be allocated for all arms contracts from the raw stage to the finished product. Everything from steel ..to nuts & bolts and electronic gadgets may be ticketed for a specific contractor. But Wilson still has not made up his mind whether CMP will cover all materials, both for civilian goods and arms, or just for arms. (Prospects are that CMP will just cover armament production.) By such tight controls, Wilson will push...
...fast -and materials cutbacks had worked so well-that the National Production Authority was changing its mind about the extent of controls needed. NPA once thought that all steel, copper and aluminum would have to come under a controlled materials plan by summer. Now it thinks that a CMP for aluminum and for only certain classes of copper and steel is necessary, thus leaving the bulk of raw materials uncontrolled...
...with CMP. By September, WPB hopes to have industry shifted from producing for a two-front to a one-front war. By then, it hopes that most materials will be so plentiful that it can drop the Controlled Materials Plan completely. All that industry will have to worry about will be a simple priority system for war orders and essential civilian production...
Lieutenant, CMP...