Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the War Production Board last week came an alarmed report: U.S. stocks and importations of tin are so low that they may be nonexistent by the end of 1946. Since tin is vital to a host of industries, this might hobble reconversion. So WPB intends to keep a tight control over tin until large-scale importations from the Far East are resumed...
...Star-Times and Globe-Democrat) hoped it would not live long. So did St. Louis readers, who found the skimpy four pages of its first issue an inadequate substitute. To start their St. Louis Daily News, Guildsmen wangled a first allotment of 16¼ tons of newsprint from WPB (which will allow any new daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher to print it,* and hired an apartment above his plant for their editorial offices. Copyreaders toiled in the living room. Managing Editor Thomas Sherman (who edits the Post-Dispatch Sunday editorial page), his society department...
...some 18 months, home builders have been held down by WPB's order L41 ; they could build no house that cost more than $8,000. When WPB swept out most of its restrictions at war's end, it also promised to drop L-41, at the end of this month. But last week, the construction industry was shocked to learn that L41 is far from dead. OPA was waging a rear guard action to keep the L41 restriction of $8,000 - or raise it to $12,000, at most - on all new private houses for another six months...
...millions of well-heeled U.S. women bought whatever they could get, as they always do, the garment makers and sellers felt safe and sure that all fall lines could be safely moved before Christmas. Then a frightening specter arose. Without warning, WPB announced that it was set to repeal the L85 order. OPA, which feared for its price ceilings, at once wagged a warning finger. In Manhattan's teeming garment center, there was great consternation...
...WPB was unmoved. The Army had cut back 174,000,000 square yards of cotton, rayon and nylon fabric-a move that in itself made almost immediate reconversion of the garment industry possible. And if reconversion was possible in any line, WPB meant to start it rolling...