To Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman's reorganization of defense (TIME, Sept. 8, ct ante) was added an important second chapter last week. If it worked, one of OPM's most conspicuously unlicked prob-lems—how to spread subcontracting—would be licked at last.
By executive order, OPM got a new branch having equal status with production, priorities, purchasing, materials. Its name: Division of Contract Distribution. Its duties: to break down big defense orders, spread the pieces among as many plants as possible. Its complementary objectives: 1) to put more U.S. productive capacity to work building guns;...
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