Mr. Dwight Filley Davis*, Assistant Secretary of War, called Industry together to explain a plan for coordinating the entire production of the country in time of war. He summoned representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers—to meet in Manhattan with him and members of the Army Ordnance Department.
There was food. And Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, presided. Before the assemblage Mr. Davis set forth...