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However, Mr. Kanzler did not remain long in government service. Under Charlie Wilson came Amory Houghton, director general of operations, and reporting to him was GE's chairman, Philip D. Reed, who was head of the Bureau of Industry Branches of which Andrew Stevenson's Transportation Equipment Branch was a unit. I failed to mention that Amory Houghton was president of the Corning Glass Company. So, under the new regime in war production control there was a fairly potent group of top industrialists. ^[[ { ]]The Truman Committee had uncovered in 1941 some eye-opening examples of hanky-panky in the war effort even at that early date including collusion between certain manufacturers and the armed services. As a result of this, the Truman Committee bore down hard on industry in its investigations. One phase of industry's contribution to the war effort which was examined thoroughly by the Committee was the "dollar-a-year" men. WPB was full of them; in fact, I'd say that they were the backbone of WPG from all I saw of it .They certainly were in the Motive Power Section. And at this point, my material runs very shy. My diary refers to "the Guthrie incident and the Truman Committee's rampage over the Dollar a Year Men." Beyond this I have no details but I infer that the Committee became extremely critical of the Dollar-a-Year Men and concluded that some of them were not in WPB primarily to further the war effort but to feather the nest of their companies. I have no idea what the Guthrie incident was but probably it was something along this line. At any rate both Phil Reed and Charlie Wilson became very gun-shy about having GE men participating in WPB activities under any kind of an arrangement, this in spite of the fact they were both I nit themselves. On this point, I believe that Charlie Wilson had debated the matter lengthily in his own mind before deciding to accept this appointment, nor do I know what arrangement he had with WPB, that is whether he was on salary with them or was dollar-a-year or what. As for Phil Reed, I only know that he was soon to leave WPB and go to London where I believe he headed up our Lend-Lease operation. At any rate, although Frank and I hadn't laid eyes on Phil the entire time we'd been working on our project, Phil had somehow gotten wise to the fact that we were working out of the Motive Power Section of Andy Stevenson's branch. Also he undoubtedly knew that we had no official standing in the branch and strictly speaking no right to be there as we were, occupying desks and to all intents and purposes acting like WPB employees. He evidently decided upon action.

Before completing this episode, I should relate briefly something about Phil Reed, who was remarkable young man who was elected chairman of the board of GE on his 40th birthday. At the time of this WPB incident, he was about 43. He was a native of Wisconsin and had both an engineering and law degree, the former with Tau Beta Pi. I think his title prior to this had