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Brainpower. But the U.S. cannot solve its manpower problem until it has first used its brainpower. Up to now the problem of manpower has been treated like the problem of raw materials (see p. 24) -by recklessly creating more & more priorities without regard to the realistic fact of how much is actually available...
...expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part in war machines). The Government now wishes that it had taken his advice two years ago, when he foresaw the raw-material shortages now plaguing the U.S. Then he urged stocking up on nickel, chrome and tungsten, suggested substitution of molybdenum for tungsten alloys, and other steps which, had they been taken, would be godsends...
...will not necessarily succeed where the old WPB failed. Many a problem is still 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...
Sept. 8-Civilization is the great birth-control agent-nature in the raw, a baby every year...
Author Ormsbee loves life in the raw. As a youth, his hero tore around in a flivver, bootleg poison in his veins and "a big Polish girl on my lap and her breasts smelling of rich cigars." He was temperamental, even with the delicate Roxane: "I knocked her down on to the bed. She got up and I knocked her down again. . . . She wept. 'That's twice you've hit me. But I can't help it. I love Jon.' " So Abner picked her up tenderly and treated her "discolored...