Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion they had called in a new team of ghostwriters-diffident, New Dealing Columnist Jay Franklin, and David Noyes, a wealthy former vice president of Lord & Thomas, who served as idea-man for WPB's Donald Nelson during...
...DDay. In the course of her testimony, Miss Bentley spilled more than 30 names. All were former employees of the Government and most of them, she said, were Communist Party members who supplied information through either Silvermaster or Victor Perlo, a WPB employee. She also told what kind of information she gathered. From agents in the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services "I got all types of highly secret information on what OSS was doing . . . secret negotiations in the Balkans, and that parachutists were being dropped." From George Silverman and one Ludwig Ullman, both in Air Force headquarters...
United Nations World, launched by former Yank Boss Egbert White with the aid of Michael (New Republic) Straight (who later dropped out), was spending some of its $400,000 in new capital on an expanded business section (up from three pages to 16). Under ex-WPB Adviser Herbert Harris, United Nations World (circ. 85,000) will run special stories on basic industries and commodities, and more pictures in a streamlined format...
Pressure at Work. The committee turned up some solid facts. Without question, bustling Henry Kaiser and his lanky associate Howard Hughes had had very special treatment in wartime Washington. Ex-WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson testified that he had ordered the flying-boat contract canceled. A couple of months later "we awoke to find the job was proceeding-Mr. Nelson had gone to Mr. Jesse Jones...
...needed goods in the world's cheapest markets; 3) decide how much European nations shall contribute to their own reconstruction. Above all, the corporation would check up continuously to make sure that U.S. aid was not being misused. In short, he wanted a sort of super-WPB to run the whole thing. With such a businesslike approach, Aldrich thought that his corporation would also attract direct investment in western Europe by private U.S. corporations, thus speed the job of rebuilding...