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This massive scheme of global warfare was well along on the U.S. Army planning schedule last week. For most soldiers in Europe it meant that V-E day would be only a weekend in war's long year. For U.S. production workers it meant many more months at war-work...
...addition, many of the tools would have little peacetime value, because they were either designed solely for war work or were all but worn out by round-the-clock production. Furthermore, Britain was barred by agreement from selling the tools abroad for at least five years after V-E day, thus protecting the U.S. machine-tool industry's export markets...
...Allied attempt to flank the Westwall at Arnhem had failed. Germany's main eastern battlefront, along the Vistula River, was relatively quiet. Slowly, Eisenhower's margin of superiority in the west was worn down in frontal attacks against formidable defenses. V-E day was set back to 1944's end-then to May 1945. It was clear that the western Allies would need a lot more muscle to beat down their rugged, obdurate and resourceful...
...Jimmy Byrnes : "Hurry, hurry, hurry, not only in winning the war, but in being ready for the peace." Byrnes's answer was less a plan than a promise. In effect, Jimmy Byrnes promised that virtually all of the shackles would be dropped from business when Germany quit on V-E day. The momentum of war production in 1944 would practically be enough to win the war against Japan. And WPB, which controlled the U.S. industrial economy, would shrivel to a vermiform appendix, which the end of the Jap war would snip...
...when burly, black-haired Julius Krug came back to head WPB his coming was like the arrival of a friend to attend the last rites. In this governmental frame of mind, the lid was pried off civilian production, ready to be thrown away when V-E day came tomorrow - or the day after...