As the 3,200 members of the National Association of Manufacturers trooped into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week, the passwords were War & Reconversion. But as they sat down to breakfast, the first meeting of their 49th annual convention, they were told, in no uncertain terms, that the only job of U.S. industry now is war, not peace.
They heard this straight from the mouth of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, hard-bitten boss of the Army Service Forces, who gravely noted that current production of munitions is lagging behind consumption (see U.S. AT WAR). There was worse to come. Said he: "Within...
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