Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington. He called it "a failure to agree on assumptions." The assumptions were basic. In their extreme form, they were: an Army assumption that crisis shortages (radar, heavy trucks, bombs) are so great that this is no time to talk about reconversion; an assumption by one wing of WPB that war production is now well over the hump, and it is high time to begin retooling for peace...
This week the WPB Requirements Committee was meeting again. The problem: how to get 100,000 tires a month for civilian trucks and busses during the third quarter. These 100,000 tires will probably be a maximum allocation, or less than the 25% of total production civilians were allotted for the second quarter...
...make cars, the industry was far too deeply engaged in war production to consider it now. The real reason: the War Production Board's "Blue Order," under which the industry could order production materials now for delivery later, was only paper. Automen would not get the materials until WPB decided to release them; and no automan can plan production unless he knows what materials he will get, how much, and when...
...closed Washington meeting, representatives of nine major companies reminded WPB that passenger-car production was predicated on military cutbacks -but that there had been no cutbacks. In fact, one representative said, the industry had been getting an increasing amount of war work.* Also there was no way to guarantee the present first-year production estimate of 2,150,000 cars. The deciding factor will be whether victory in Europe comes in a trickle or a torrent...
...WPB said it would let the industry make experimental postwar models. Again the automen said no. Their biggest manpower trouble lay in the engineering and drafting fields, where the burden of reconversion and new model planning would fall. The industry wanted to start by producing 1942 models; fundamental engineering changes are a big, long-time...