Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson decentralized his staff, turned production over mostly to the Army & Navy, set up a new all-important committee to feed the war machine with raw materials, keep the present lines moving at top speed. To move the produce and to get around the shipping bottleneck, WPB worked toward a huge new fleet of air transports. Now 1943 and 1944 were far away and 1945 was never...
...step away from Washington, rather than toward it, since World War II began. WPB began to decentralize itself. This blessed portent was part of WPB's shift in emphasis from expansion-for-later to production-with-what-we-have-now. The present U.S. war plant is already devouring raw materials faster than they can be mined. Therefore, Washington's No. 1 job is no longer production, or conversion, or contract-letting, but raw-materials flow. So WPB began to strip itself down to that job. James...
...Axis, and so much so that Belgian Congo forces have helped the British in every possible manner to conquer Ethiopia, taking prisoner many thousands of Italian troops and some Italian generals. Moreover, only a few days ago, the Governor General of the Belgian Congo urged Congo production of raw materials to be speeded up to such an extent that, very soon, that production will make good some of the losses sustained by the Allies in the South Pacific...
...Regulation's full breadth was definable only by listing the things it did not control: farm products, books, magazines, movies, etc., collectors' items and precious articles, securities, raw naval stores, restaurant meals, insurance, advertising, utilities and a few other services. The selling price of everything else was frozen at the highest levels for each individual supplier during the month of March. Penalties for noncompliance: up to a year in jail and $5,000 (plus liability for triple damages), suspension for a year of the license to do business that OPA's Regulation automatically grants to all sellers...
...Axis, whose State and business are synonymous, always moved in a straight line. Its businessmen abroad had one job: to win the war. They grabbed war-essential raw materials in exchange for cameras or money, without figuring the price. They let everything else go, foregoing nickel-nickel peacetime profits for the great rewards...