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Show (nAliinqtm ty JamiS Preston We're going to need competent, experienced businessmen to guide disposal policies on war surpluses, the National Association of Manufacturers Man-ufacturers has told the Senate Military Affairs Committee, now mulling over the problem. What the NAM suggests is a seven-man commission nominated by the President and approved by the Senate, each members to have had at least five years' industrial or merchandising executive experience, experi-ence, which would be responsible to and report directly to Congress. It's an important job, say they, i and "will strongly influence the speed with which we can reconvert to a high level of peacetime production pro-duction and employment." The NAM wants to guard against indiscriminate "dumpings" of surplus war nlants after the war, because they would lead to disruptions in the economy which would not help either production or employment. Here's what they recommend: (1) Opportunity for small as well as large business to purchase purch-ase surplus property. (2) Disposal of the' property through regular trade channels. (3) Disposal aoroad of war surpluses sur-pluses held outside the U. S., with strict provision against subsequent subse-quent entry of such goods into the U S. (4) Elimination of government govern-ment interests from private plants as rapidly as possible. |