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work, figuring things out. I think he had Isadore Lubin in to help him. I don't know who else he had. Then he emerged with the recommendation that a War Manpower Commission be appointed, so that was that. We agreed that should be the end of it, as he thought it should be.

He pointed out, among other things, that this business of making the regulation that you've got to stop the lamp shade industry and other purely luxury industries had to come from a new body that didn't exist. Well, I thought it could be done by the W.P.B. I couldn't see why it couldn't. But he thought it had to be done on the grounds of releasing manpower, and that that would be one of the reasons for it all. He had been much convinced by the statement of somebody, I can't think who it was, that future scientists were being drafted and that Hershey didn't have any way to know a future scientist from anybody else, and these were the young men, not only in colleges and in schools, but working in various scientific plants and laboratories at very low levels, you see. They were being drafted; they were not being used. We'd got to build up a roster of scientifically trained people and medically trained people, and that was a very large job. It wasn't only just fitting existing population into existing jobs, but looking toward the future, you see-- way into the future. So they decided that.





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