Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements, headless and neglected since shy, gnome-like Arthur Dare Whiteside went back to run Dun & Bradstreet three months ago, last week got a new boss and a vigorous new policy. Off went the lid which WPB clamped down six weeks ago on any sizable increase in manufacturing civilian goods...
...bottleneck is less the result of material shortages than of lack of facilities and manpower, this change will produce a small bonanza of farm equipment, household goods (e.g., irons, baby carriages) and textiles (children's and infants' clothes). More important, the new policy underlined a significant fact: WPB has at last taken a firm stand against Army & Navy demand for "everything-of -everything...
...inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production of landing craft, of which the Navy wants 80,000 this year...
...Production Board agreed last week that the U.S. needs a good, stiff drink* To previous suggestions of a liquor-making "holiday," convivial WPB Chairman Donald Nelson has returned a firm no. This time he told Senate investigators that beverage alcohol has been listed next among essential civilian needs; limited production may be allowed as soon as sufficient industrial alcohol has been stockpiled. But that time, said Mr. Nelson. is still at least three or four months away...
Medical news last week vied with news of the days before invasion. Under the aspect of eternity, the medical news might even be more important than the military. WPB announced that the wonder drug penicillin, for three years practically a monopoly of the Army & Navy, was now being manufactured in such quantity that it can be issued to civilians. Some 1,000 hospitals will be allowed to buy generous monthly quotas for distribution to patients and other hospitals as they...