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...Plan-It. In this setup, Ferd Eberstadt, 52, will inevitably become Donald Nelson's second in command. He is used to taking charge. In World War I he interrupted his Columbia University law course to serve in France in the 304th Field Artillery, was wounded and rose to captain, was noted for commanding the best-drilled, best-disciplined battery in the 304th. Afterward he went to Wall Street as a corporation lawyer, soon was a partner in the investment-banking firm of Dillon, Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started...
...unsolved: the deadwood which Donald Nelson had not yet cleared out of WPB's staff, the development of a new system to ease raw-material shortages, the fact that WPB-which has no control over manpower or prices-is intrinsically a poor substitute for a genuine Economic High Command. And it still remains to be seen whether even really top-drawer industrial executives can get Washington's huge bureaucracy to function-or will be able to put up temperamentally with its futility...
...command the Pacific Fleet Air Force, with the rank of vice admiral, Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics...
...command United Nations' air forces in the southwest Pacific (replacing Lieut. General George H. Brett), Major General George C. Kenny...
Delayed news reports and naval reticence prevented an up-to-the-minute picture of the action. But correspondents last week were allowed to cable that a temporary lull presumably meant the Japanese were readying a seaborne task force to recapture old positions. Chungking reported that the Japanese naval command had detailed four battleships to the Solomons area. Army Flying Fortresses spotted and bombed a strong naval force northeast of Tulagi, but could claim only "possible hits" on two battleships. A sea-&-air battle on the scale of Midway and the Coral Sea was imminent...