Show I Iii U. U S. S Becomes Big Boss' Boss Of Explosives By RICHARD WALDO and p GABRIEL NEW YORK Peace or war I there there is little likelihood that du duFont dur r Pont Font Hercules Atlas or any other powder house will have to dodge dodge the Merchants of ot Death tag which the advertising offices have teen been fighting since the last war Probabilities are that for the foreseeable foreseeable fore fore- foreseeable seeable future the manufacture of ot powder and assorted explosives will vUI be a federal industry almost A federal monopoly As a result of stinging Innuendo after the A. A E E. F. F came home from r- r r ti the World war var du Pont and others r. r shifted production emphasis ann and widely advertised the fact that only a small percentage of operations operations opera opera- produced p powder and that mostly for industrial use As a ar r r result sult the defense commission found that the explosives industry built all aU again agaIn- r r had to be over from the ground up Here Here are the beginnings of ot the new federal industry the industry the plants that will be b built and owned by the I government and operated by private private private vate companies as agents and managers managers managers man man- agers for Uncle Sam Two powder units in Indiana and Virginia willbe will willbe be manned by du Pont and Hercules Hercules Hercules Her Her- cules a TNT plant for Stone and W Webster in Illinois a shell factory in Ohio for Atlas a machine-gun machine plant each for tor General Motors and Savage Arms company Others i for which contracts are not yet yetI I L signed are on the fire At the t. t end of ot the emergency period each house simply recalls Its staff the plants take on federal watchmen t and the vested interests in munItions munitions muni munI- accrues If to anyone to the Big Boss |