Three new businessmen turned up in Washington last week in three new jobs, which appeared to tip off things to come in the new business-and-Government wartime procedures:
Army & Navy: De facto head of the Army & Navy Munitions Board (his de jure commission still to be signed) is Wall Street's Ferdinand Eberstadt, first civilian since War I to head the services' top procurement-coordinating body. Longtime friend and former partner of Navy Under Secretary Jim Forrestal, Ferd Eberstadt was also urged to his new job by his friend War Under Secretary Bob Patterson,...
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