Word: edb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their toasts and speeches were exceptionally friendly because EDB's Milo Perkins had finally won his fight to bring the Latin Republics into the U.S.'s own program of scarcity manipulation, instead of insulting them with paper priorities that turned out to be no good...
...hemisphere needs alongside of the domestic needs & supply study on which Donald Nelson has been working for weeks. While Don Nelson's inventory study was still in the study stage, Colonel Lord's "globular survey" last week appeared to be coming out of the woods. This week EDB will present to OPM Venezuela's itemized 1942 needs for strategic materials and machinery. No non-strategic items were included, and the list was pared to the bone by Señores Mendoza and Boulton, rechecked by Colonel Lord's office. The agreed-upon total (10% less than...
Marveling that nobody had thought to look for these supplies before, EDB took immediate steps to put them to work. One mystery: who had been paying the storage and demurrage charges on them for over a year? Knowing full well that Germany would have been glad to pay to keep the supplies idle, EDB aimed to find the answer in a hurry. It also sent its agents to look for more materials in the freight yards of New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco...
...businessmen pressed by shortages, EDB's Hoboken windfall had a hopeful note. If a quick survey of one railroad yard could turn up several million pounds of idle materials, the Office of Production Management's still uncompleted overall inventory survey might turn up billions...