Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Looms. The shortage was not of workers, but of workers in the right places. First to suffer would be the $149 million worth of civilian production authorized during the optimistic autumn. Less than half of this reconversion program will be permitted, because of shortages of materials and manpower, WPB officials now said. Last week WPB's Chairman Julius A. ("Cap") Krug halted the production of cotton yarn for civilian needs. Manufacture of upholstery and drapery material, chenille bedspreads and dishmops, would make way for an Army rush order of eight million pounds of cotton duck a month, to meet...
...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...
...Problems. More production meant the building of more plants, although Nelson had said smugly: the war machine is built. In August WPB still thought no new plants would be needed. But from November on as German resistance stiffened into a crashing offensive, the Army hastily reconsidered. WPBoss Krug had dumped on his desk plans to build one billion dollars' worth of new war plants. These would be for high-octane gas (the octane shortage had been "solved" months ago), for tires (the rubber problem had been "solved"), for jet motors and scores of brand-new weapons...
With this year's corn crop a record-breaking 3.2 billion bushels, WFA and WPB last week made an expected decision: distillers can use corn for bourbon whiskey during the January holiday (TIME, Nov. 20). Bourbon, the most popular U.S. whiskey, has not been made since October 1942, because of the grain shortage. Distillers will work around the clock in January, have set some 20 million gallons of bourbon as their goal. Another 20 million gallons of neutral spirits, for blending with other whiskies, gins, rums, etc., will also be made. Though most of the holiday's bourbon...