PRODUCTION IN U.S.
HAMPERED BY DIVIDED CONTROL (Recd. 9 p.m.) New York. Fqb. 16. “I am fighting for my life a’gainst the demands of the Army and Navy that the Works Production Board should be abolished," said the chairman, Mr. Dtfriald Nelson. » The New York Herald-Tribune's Washington correspondent explains that the feud between the armed services and the War Production Board has been going on for some time over the authority and control of war production. The dispute recently reached a climax when the Army and Navy protested against Mr. Nelson’s decision to transfer seven War Production. Board divisions, including the important aluminium and magnesium division, from the control of the Material Director, Mr. Eberstadt, to the control of the Production Director,. Mr. Wilson, who is responsible for war plant production, for which 80 per cent, of the nation’s aluminium is used. Mr. Nelson announced that he asked for Mr. Eberstadt's resignation and appointed Charles Wilson, vice-chairman of the War Production Board, to take over the duties formerly vested in Eberstadt. 4
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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