Since World War II began, professional mourners have repeatedly hung crepe on the door of small business. But small business bullheadedly refused to die. Last week this stubborn survivor got a shot in the arm. Needle wielder was droopy-lidded, deadpan Robert Wood Johnson, boss of the Smaller War Plants Corp. The shot: a new plan for civilian production in small plants.
Fortnight ago, Johnson, who came to SWPC last January from Army Ordnance (which had drawn him from the presidency of Johnson & Johnson), turned in his commission as brigadier general, in order to devote his time to civilian business...
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