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...fight over synthetic rubber was finished (TIME, Feb. 8). The issue-how many synthetic rubber plants Czar William Jeffers could build without using materials needed by the Army & Navy-was ancient history. The decision was already on the books: Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, as referee, had decided to let Jeffers build plants for 452,000 tons, 43.6% of the amount called for by the Baruch report...
...again that Army & Navy factory expediters were "loafers" who made off with materials he could have used better. An audience of top military men looked on in angry silence. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal roared back at the Czar...
...necessary parts could be obtained by breaking production bottlenecks, announced he would stick to his program. But the program, said the armed services, had already been outdated by the facts of war; and the Battle of the Atlantic was far from won. The bitter dispute finally went to Economic Czar James F. Byrnes for settlement. Washington heard that Jimmy Byrnes was prepared to cut rubber production; how much, no one knew. But since the fight cut to the heart of United Nations strategy, it seemed that this was a time when the Army and Navy should have their...
Last week three bills patterned after the Ruml plan were introduced in Congress, without waiting for a nod from Morgenthau. There were reports that Economic Czar James F. Byrnes would become Administration tax spokesman. Urbane Senator Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had his own ideas about 1943 taxes. So did stubborn Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee...
...brawny Italian with a conspirator's felt hat last week kissed his wife good-by in suburban Mamaroneck, swung behind the wheel of a Clipper model Packard and drove to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. There he encased himself in the beard and trappings of an ancient czar. Exactly one hour after his arrival, Ezio Pinza, with a regal bearing that scattered stagehands right & left, stubbed out the butt of a lighted cigaret and strode through the wings as Boris Godunoff...