Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penicillin, so plentiful last summer that manufacturers got permission to put it in tablets and capsules, was back on the priority list as production fell farther & farther behind demand. The Civilian Production Administration (successor to WPB) figures that production is already 20% short of filling current needs, will set aside 40% for hospitals until further notice...
Wrong Place. A fine of $148,000, biggest ever imposed for violation of WPB regulations, was levied against the Weirton Steel Co. in Wheeling Federal Court. The company used priorities obtained for a company hospital to renovate and air condition a country club used by Weirton executives...
Inviting Attention. The Navy's star witness, able Secretary Jim Forrestal, in vited the committee's attention to an alternative plan drawn for him by Ferdinand Eberstadt (investment banker and onetime vice chairman of WPB...
...Down. In Washington even the most devout Democrats regretfully observed that after six months in office and two months of peace, Harry Truman was doing little better than muddling through. Bouncy Maury Maverick, the Texas ex-Congressman now in charge of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp., bought himself a dime-store compass and cracked: "There are so many times when I don't know in which direction I'm going that I have to take it out and look...
...fashions have been going on day after day. Despite a shortage of materials and the low state of the French economy, "collections" were nearly as large as prewar. Most designers had extravagantly used far more material for their models than any U.S. designer would dare use under the dying WPB's austerity regulation L-85. Last week, as pictures of the new models arrived in the U.S., designers scanned them to see what was up and what was down...