Word: bew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan bank vice president heard about a new job at the Board of Economic Warfare, applied for it, awaited the answer. Meanwhile a BEW official dropped in at the bank, asked the president to recommend someone for the job. The vice president was suggested and hired on the spot...
...Production Requirements Committee, which at last possesses the basic facts on the size of the scarce materials pie, will slice it into seven pieces-for Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW, Civilian Supply and Charles Edward Wilson's new aircraft scheduling unit...
What Donald Davis does from now on is almost a sky's-the-limit proposition. His potential job is to make one big war-winning whole out of the individual production demands of Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW and civilian supply. Now when he says "let's walk around that idea," burly Outdoor-man Davis is talking about the longest walk he ever set out to take...
...Inventory & Requisitioning Branch was set up two days after Pearl Harbor with almost unlimited power to handle just such problems. But very little was done to dispose of the frustrated freight. Most of it was gotten out of the ports and out of railroad cars and put into warehouses. BEW, Army, Navy managed to take some things that they could use in fabricated form. But the rest-steel bars, engine blocks for French planes, etc.-got frustrated worse than ever. Worst of all, nobody yet knows how much frustrated freight there...
...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...