Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could the manpower crisis be cured now, with almost 2,000,000 less non-farm workers than when it was first discovered? Certainly no one gave any credit to Paul McNutt's much denounced War Manpower Commission. The little-noticed change actually came from the slow combination of the efforts of many men-and the progress of the war itself...
Originals of TIME covers by Baker have gone (among many others) to General Doolittle, Secretary Knox, Manpower Czar McNutt-and still another (a portrait of General De Gaulle) so impressed the Fighting French that they dropped tens of thousands of reprints on Occupied France. And hundreds of subscribers have asked, like Mrs. Spaatz, "How does...
...reason for the new call, put off as long as possible, was also clear. The nation faced a new manpower crisis (see below). Said War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt: "I must make available additional sources of military manpower or be responsible for a serious crisis in war-production industries by the withdrawal of thousands of men whose occupational deferment is absolutely essential...
Thanks to hasty patching by Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission and aggressive hiring campaigns by industry, the manpower shortage has been off the front pages for months. But in the next year WMC estimates that the U.S. will need 2,000,000 more soldiers & sailors, 1,600,000 more workers in war plants, Government and food processing...
Gallup pollsters last week asked Southern voters to name one choice for the next Democratic Presidential candidate. The South's choice: Roosevelt, 80%; Byrnes, 8; Wallace, 6; Farley, 3; McNutt, 2; Douglas, 1; Winant, less than...