Word: 2x
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the final scene of the old priority farce had to be played. WPB announced a new quickie priority, label AA-2X. The supposedly top priority is Aia, but AA-2X rates ahead of it-to get war factories small amounts of critical materials when needed in a rush to keep production going (of course for still greater emergencies there were already two still higher ratings...
...magic of obtaining more materials than exist by the simple device of inventing higher priority ratings has about lost its effectiveness as a stage illusion, even in Washington. AA-2x, it appeared, was only a stopgap measure until WPBoss Donald Nelson's new plan-it man Ferdinand Eberstadt (TIME. Sept. 28) got the new, more realistic allocations system under...