Word: allocatees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He told the House Agriculture Committee, which has been investigating the shortage of farm labor, that he believed an act of Congress is necessary to allocate manpower wherever the need is greatest, whether it be on farms, in war plants, or in the armed forces.
He made some big decisions-or what seemed to be decisions at the time. He decided to adopt Reese Taylor's centralized plan to allocate steel-and to apply it to other raw materials as well. He issued orders taking away the blank-check power that Army & Navy field...
The American consumer, addicted for years to swearing by Camay, Camels, and Camphor, Ice, is in for a rude shock. His favorite brands may soon disappear from the market if the plans of WPB for concentrating civilian production in a few "nuclear" plants is adopted. Worried by the wastefulness of...
Solution on Paper. When President Roosevelt made Donald Nelson the nation's production boss last January, he provided a solution-on paper. Donald Nelson had full power to convert U.S. factories to war, build new plants, gather up the nation's raw materials. Most important, he could allocate...
Authority in Deadlock. But no one could say yet who would win the struggle. General Somervell had licked every job he ever tackled; on his record, he was a hard man to stop. But WPB's biggest job now was to allocate raw materials impartially for military and civilian...