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...price-fixing administration, but resides largely in the question of supply and capacity." He considers himself a supply commissioner as well as a price tsar; he plans to use all his power to put pressure on business to drop opposition to plant expansion. Major examples of such opposition: the Gano Dunn report (declaring steel capacity adequate); frequent assurances from the railroads that they can handle all the country's transportation needs without additional facilities. In this respect, Henderson's new commission represents a major setback for Director of Priorities E. R. Stettinius Jr., who never publicly questioned...
...report was on the capacity of the steel industry, made by Gano Dunn, 70, president of J. G. White Engineering Co., now an OPMite in the production division. Awaited for weeks, Engineer Dunn's report was expected to settle a hot defense controversy over steel: how much (if any) should the industry expand? Beaming cheer, the President said there had been a lot of loose talk about the adequacy of steel capacity; that the Dunn report showed ample facilities for all domestic defense and civilian needs, as well as for those of the nations defending democracy...
...bloodshed a little longer, the Defense Commission last week announced a new arbitrato, Gano Dunn, the $1-a-year engineer (J. G. White Engineering Corp.) who had already helped arbitrate a TVA expansion fight last summer, was appointed to study the pros & cons of new steel capacity. On the spot was Defense Priorities Commissioner Ed Stettinius, who is trying as hard as any other businessman to get along with the New Deal. Last week, as a gesture toward the wishes of his steelmaking friends, he appointed a five-man steel priorities board-the first step toward rationing in steel...
...also conducting an intensive drive among Boston alumni to finance an expanded program of charitable work. Seth T. Gano '07 is chairman of the committee of nineteen graduates sponsoring the campaign...
...supply the Aluminum Co. of America with critically needed power. Up popped Republican anti-TVA Congressman McLean of New Jersey, Republican Congressman Dirksen of Illinois, blocked the appropriation. They were unmoved by assurances that one of the bill's sponsors was the commission's Utilities Consultant Gano Dunn, whose engineering firm had once helped G. O. P. Candidate Wendell Willkie fight...