Word: reconverting
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...months after V-E day, WPB hopes that there will be enough materials and manpower available so that the gen eral run of industries can reconvert as they please, let supply and demand govern output...
...switchover will swell each week. War contracts must be completed first, but plants may reconvert before the end of the war with Germany. For roofless Britons, patiently trudging to work in their shiny trousers and shabby dresses, home-front production will give priorities to clothing, building material, household equipment. Cars, tires, refrigerators, electrical gear, machinery will get preference for the vital export markets...
...False Armistice. The issue was simple: had the time come for the U.S. to begin to reconvert to peace? Eyeing the mammoth stockpiles for war and the progress of the Allied armies across France, WPBoss Nelson thought it had. Charlie Wilson did not think so. Reconversion won. And Charlie Wilson tacitly admitted that perhaps Don Nelson had been right. For he promptly reconverted himself back to General Electric, remarked that G.E.'s reconversion was "one hell...
Fuel Oil is up because of better transportation distribution (chiefly pipelines). Production has caught up with military needs. If all the former oil users reconvert this winter, oilmen can supply the extra oil which will be needed, but only 30% are expected to reconvert...
...prices, or higher. But Ford made clear that, while it tools up for the new car, its first postwar cars will be much-improved 1942 models. (Said Henry Ford II: "The cars will be more improved over 1942 than the average yearly changes.") To produce the postwar flivver and reconvert, Ford will spend...