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California Shipbuilding Corp. (TIME, July 13) at Los Angeles launched its 55th Liberty ship, last of the ships on its first war contract, 200 days ahead of schedule and just 18 months after the first pile was driven for its $20,000,000 shipyard...
James V. Forrestal, 50, went to Washington after making a pile of money in Wall Street, where he was president of the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co. He still wears his banker's semi-stiff collars, smokes a pipe, has an amiably smashed nose from boxing. A man of healthy cynicism, Forrestal sometimes says: "I doubt very seriously that I'm doing any good down here. I don't know whether businessmen should go into the government or not." But as Under Secretary of the Navy, Jim Forrestal reorganized the archaic Navy purchasing system...
...idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included everything from handling administrative details of the Army training program to moving Japanese off the West Coast. Everyone who knows himp gives him top marks...
...still laugh grimly over the suggestion from headquarters that they supplement rations by buying in the open market. The food problem is aggravated because the soldiers won't eat mutton. "These boys simply won't touch sheep," says the exasperated mess officer who watches supplies of mutton pile...
...metals "invariably resulted in a rush to grab as much as they could of the scarce metals while the getting was good, thus making the shortage even more critical." Sample: by the time dogfood canners were told they could have no more tin, they were sitting on a huge pile of cans already lithographed, which they asked permission to use up. WPB graciously let them go ahead, though Army rations could have gone into those cans just as well as into the new ones the Army was ordering. Says Anderson, in mild defense of WPB's generosity...