Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles E. Wilson,* the strong man of WPB, went to the White House to resign, as he had twice before in the past nine months. He had a personal reconversion problem of his own: he wanted to get back to the presidency of General Electric. And he was sick & tired of months of WPB haggling and sniping. Once more Franklin Roosevelt begged him to stay on as WPB's executive vice chairman-at least until Germany fell...
...first time last week businessmen were eager to fill out Government forms. Within 24 hours of WPB's announcement on Aug. 15 permitting production of 79 classes of civilian goods (TIME, July 24), WPB field offices ran out of blanks on which manufacturers could apply for the privilege...
...minor men in WPB last week became the first casualties of this battle: chunky V. Lewis Bassie, 36, and short, thin Irving Kaplan, 43, WPB economists. Their job had been to prepare confidential reports of war-production progress for top WPB eyes. In their latest report, they made an audacious assertion: except for a few items, the Army has more than enougk materiel to fight the war. Samples: several years' supply of small arms; a year's supply of guns, fire-control equipment and ammunition; at least nine months' stockpile of ordnance equipment generally. When the Army...
Obviously, two WPB statisticians-without knowledge of future battle plans -had no right to challenge the Army's own judgment of its needs. Just as obviously, they did have the right to report to WPB on massive Army stockpiles...
...this latest rubber crisis, WPB appealed for an immediate increase in tire production-a full 30%, now when the need is greatest. Could Akron meet...