ARMAMENT: What's Wrong, Charlie?

Standing up before 200 scrap-metal dealers in Washington last week, Chief Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson angrily pounded his ham-sized hands down on the lectern. The Defense Production Administration, he said, had told him that steel production will be lower in the beginning of 1952 than in the last quarter of this year. Cried Charlie Wilson: "I just won't accept that answer. We have got to have at least a million more tons to distribute in the first quarter and another million or two million tons in the second quarter . . . Get this damn scrap in."

Wilson's blood & thunder...

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