Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budgets of eight war agencies (OWI, WPB, Censorship, ODT, PAW, FSA, WMC and the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...WPB had promised that when the time came for big-scale reconversion, all of industry would get off to an equal start. Last week it followed up these comforting words with comforting action. It set aside top priorities for some $102,000,000 in machine tools and new construction for all of the 72 major industries which had converted their facilities to war work...
...these first great steps to shift the U.S. from a two-front war to a one-front war did mean that, as war contracts are canceled, the manpower and materials freed will be shunted into civilian plants with a minimum of red tape. WPB still held up the go-ahead for the making of autos, refrigerators and washing machines...
...WPB doubled its estimate of the amount of steel which can be used for civilian production in the first big cutback period, the first quarter. There may be 3,000,000 tons - enough to start mass pro duction of cars, refrigerators...
...these moves, WPB cautioned, did not mean that a flood of civilian goods will be turned out tomorrow; tight controls will still be kept oh the three basic materials, copper, steel and aluminum...