Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will the rationing of autos, refrigerators, and many other civilian items be necessary after Japan quits? Last week, the Wall Street Journal got its fingers on a confidential War Production Board report and announced that WPB is planning a postwar rationing system. Actually, WPB's survey was prepared for a special contingency: that Japan might be defeated in perhaps six months, before reconverted plants "are in full production and before military cutbacks have become fully effective. In that event, said WPB, the rationing prospects are as follows...
...motormakers were not happy with these quotas. Ford, for one, complained that its quota this fall would provide only four cars for each of its dealers, whereas the fewer dealers of some smaller companies would have many more. This kind of quota trouble should not affect many businesses. WPB plans to free members of most industries to turn out as much as they want on a catch-as-catch-can basis. This will not be possible with autos, because the industry is so greedy for steel that other industries would be crowded out. Nor will it be possible with...
Across the Border? Since WPB has denied auto manufacturers the right to use nickel in their new civilian cars, the motor industry is up against the problem of getting chrome trim (nickel is required as a base for chrome plating). Because the U.S. likes shiny metal, some considered trying chrome paint or stainless steel...
...Report. WPB announced proudly that U.S. steelmaking capacity has reached a yearly level of over 95 million tons (almost equal to the world's steel production in 1935). Other steel facts: 1) the $2 billion cost of the expansion (15 million tons since 1941) was borne about equally by business and government; 2) western steel capacity is now 4,900,000 tons-about 5% of the U.S. total; 3) plate steel capacity, a probable headache after the war, is up six to 13 million tons annually...
Back to the Hills. In 1942, WPB banned U.S. gold mining because the U.S. did not need gold, and badly needed trained miners to produce copper and other vitally necessary metals. That situation has not changed materially, but the political situation has. Under strong and well-placed pressure, WPB last week set July 1 as the date gold-mine operators may resume the profitable business of digging gold out of the Rockies-to be reburied at Fort Knox...