MANUFACTURING: Westward Ho!

For almost seven years Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been pretty much his own Secretary of the Navy. Last week Columnist Raymond Clapper chided him for being his own Secretary of State. And last week the President himself stepped out in front as his own Secretary of something like Military Economics. At press conference he laid down a new theory: the U. S. ought to have a Pacific coast steel industry. His arguments:

>The growing West Coast's growing steel demands far exceed the limited capacity of the small West Coast steel plants. (U. S....

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