Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agencies Appropriations Bill, the OSRD got 12 million dollars more than the combined totals granted to the WPB, the ODT, the Petroleum Administrator for War, the WLB, the Office of Economic Stabilization, and the Office of War Mobilization. Congress didn't cut a penny of OSRD Director Vannevar Bush's $135,982,500 budget. (Bush is also president of Carnegie Institution in Washington...
...President's two 'meetings with the press were not lively. Nobody brought up the subject of paper matches. Hearstling Bob Considine had written in a feature series that the President "won't permit three cigarets to be lighted on one match." Next day WPB asked the U.S. to save paper, forget this superstition...
...walnut-paneled, richly furnished office in the banklike Chamber of Commerce building a block from the White House, he not only runs the Chamber but also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about a third of the year with him in his Mayflower Hotel apartment, the rest in Spokane where their daughters Harriet, 17, and Elizabeth...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...
Irony. This is the year when the railroads had hoped that their problems would ease. They had hoped to get through the war without a serious car shortage. For 1944 WPB has promised steel enough to build 60,000 freight cars and 1,200 locomotives. Pullman has delivered the last of 1,200 troop sleepers...