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Show until these transition are settled, industry can 6 gradual inching up of civm?' duction as war productiri ' down. ( n ulated Readjustment Division of the Army Service Forces, policy formulae on three problems have been drawn up and submitted di-recUy di-recUy to the President. They are: disposal of surplus materials; disposition dis-position of government pants, and a uniform termination clause. Decisions are expected shortly. For the immediate future, or tyjAMES Preston Important cutbacks in both Army Ar-my and Navy basic matenals a coming all the time as heretofore critical materials are eased up 5 the requirements of our own and Allied forces' can be often filled from growing reserves. Production officials are quick to explain that in many instances the cutbacks would be more than offset by the increases in some military items, and that the 1944 war production program calls for increasing the 1943 output by 17 percent. WPB Executive Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson, agreeing with General Eisenhower that the war with Germany will end in 1944, emphasizes that we cannot safely count on a quick collapse of Germany, Ger-many, and warns against any undue un-due optimism over an early opening open-ing up of general civilian production. produc-tion. Meanwhile, concrete steps are being taken toward solving all the problems involved in the tremendous tre-mendous v job of dismantling the nation's industrial war machine. According to Col. David N. Hause-man, Hause-man, Director of the newly form- |