Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approach to X-Day. Another main Baruch recommendation was on war-contract cancellation policy. The chief suggestion: that WPB and the services prepare an "X-Day Reconversion Plan" ("X-Day" being the day Germany folds up) that would establish 1) what civilian production should start first, 2) what industries and plants should get in on the ground floor...
Though this two-year supply is big enough to free the U.S. of its present dependence on Bolivia, Washington is not indifferent to Bolivian tin. The prevailing WPB view is that the U.S. should actually build up a stockpile of as much as four years' supply...
Plugs for Loopholes. Senator George found his report approved by businessmen, the Army & Navy and WPB. Promptly, he and Montana's Senator James...
Thousands of trout fishermen west of the Mississippi use the pink-and-orange-dyed skeins of salmon eggs for bait (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, this little business was in trouble. Reason : WPB had cut off its supply of glass containers...
...orders from soldiers & sailors taking up fishing all over the world. In all, the six canners sold 5,000,000 jars, grossed $350,000. This year, they expected to jump production still higher, and have already salted away $50,000 worth of salmon eggs for canning. But unless WPB relents, the industry will have to shut up shop March 1. By the end of summer, the supply of canned eggs on hand will be exhausted. Trout fishers who have used salmon eggs from Alaska to Scotland will have to go back to fly casting, or give...