Word: weiner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small, intense Joseph Lee Weiner, head of civilian supply until last week, had no responsibility for the civilian-supply areas covered by all the czars. He was not represented on any major committee in or out of WPB. Unlike all the czars, he had no recourse beyond WPB on any home-front problem. Example: when washing-machine production was stopped just as women went to work in war plants, there was no home-front voice to insist upon more repair parts for washing machines or to argue that laundries are essential...
...said energetic Joseph L. Weiner, WPB's Director of Civilian Supply, as he sent to Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes last week a report to answer the question: For the purposes of total war, just how much fat can be pared from the U.S. way of life...
...Weiner's answer was that U.S. civilians could play their part in total war with 68.6% of the goods and services they used in 1941. Civilians, he said, could carry on with 0.0% of 1941's jewelry and sterling ware, monuments and tombstones, passenger cars and boats. They needed merely 2.5% of 1941's phonographs and radios, 3.7% of washing machines and refrigerators. They would not suffer with a balanced 71.8% of food, yet "for morale" they should have 65% of beer & wine, 75.2% of tobacco...
Civilians must have 79.1% of 1941's toothbrushes-but only 35.1% of dentifrices (salt and bicarbonate of soda, said Joe Weiner, are just-as-good substitutes). They could do with 58.3% of packaged medicines but not without 107.2% of sanitary napkins ("with women entering industry to a greater extent, it is not possible to revert to improvised methods and materials"). They required no paper facial tissues but 92.1% of toilet paper. (The report said its use "has increased considerably since...
...cutback is absolutely necessary if the U.S. is to produce anything like the $87 billions worth of military goods which is the 1943 military goal. But the cutback will also be rendered difficult given the huge civilian demand. Joseph L. Weiner in the Office of Civilian Supply may labor prodigiously to get a balance of civilian output through drastic allocation of raw materials and through a "concentration" of civilian industries into the hands of a few firms. But how men and women are to be jarred out of the service industries with civilians able to pay good cash for services...