Word: cutbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cutback Jitters. But Donald Nelson won a victory of his own. This week his plan to resume limited civilian output went into effect, even though opposed by the Army & Navy, and delayed five weeks by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes. It will mean only a trickle of goods, but it was a triumph, even though small, for his side of the Reconversion War. For Nelson, with many other officials, believes that war workers will stick to their high-pay jobs only if they are sure that peace will not come with a thud. And workers could...
...This news was concealed in an optimistic release which chose to stress increased production of long-range bombers-Boeing B-29s and the new super-Liberator, the B32. But what the War Department had mainly done was to cancel C46 cargo-plane production at Higgins in New Orleans, and cutback P47 output...
...Cutbacks. As soon as Germany is beaten, war production will be cut back 50%, if WPB's Donald Nelson gets his way; 35% if the Army has the say. U.S. economy has expanded so much that even a 35% cutback is expected to provide almost as much manpower, material and facilities for civilian production as before...
...available. First goods to be made from surplus metals will be teakettles, washtubs, tableware, pots & pans, hairpins, safety pins, etc. Second in line are things made in quantity now, but largely absorbed by the Army. Sample: radio equipment. The radio industry has expanded about twelve times; even an 8% cutback would take care of prewar civilian demands. But-Army & Navy demands for radio-radar equipment are going...
...higher. Both Services could probably cut back many production pro grams even farther than they have. But both fear one thing deeply: that man power, seeing the war program ending, will desert in droves to the security of peace production jobs. They well know that after each war-plant cutback the workers prefer and seek peace-plant jobs, so that they will not soon be let out again...