Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remington was publicly and legally branded a liar for saying that he had never been a Communist. He was convicted for perjury, but even graver was the implication that he had passed on to fellow Communists secret information to which he had access when he was working for the WPB. Remington was whisked off to jail for the night. Next day, pale but calm, he stood before Judge Noonan and received the maximum sentence for perjury: five years in jail and a $2,000 fine...
FRED SEARLS JR., 62, in & out of Government jobs since 1941 (WPB, War Shipping Administration, etc.), and president of Newmont Mining Corp., to be adviser to Wilson on where and how the U.S. can get more raw materials...
MANLY FLEISCHMANN, 42, Buffalo lawyer, World War II legal adviser to WPB and other boards, now head of NPA, which has the overall job of allocating all materials needed for arms production. Fleischmann's chief aides: LELAND E. SPENCER, 42, vice president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and World War II tire czar, rubber division boss; MARSHALL M. SMITH, 54, former president of E. W. Bliss Co. (machine tools), allocating industrial and construction machinery for defense; DAVID B. CARSON, 60, vice president Of Sharon Steel Corp., channeling iron & steel to arms contractors; WALTER SKUCE, 46, Owens-Corning Fiberglas executive...
HARRY K. CLARK, 61, old WPB hand and president of the Carborundum Co., to be the board's vice chairman in charge of coordinating arms and civilian production so neither will be disrupted...
...years later, Charlie Wilson got fed up with Nelson's eagerness to start reconverting while the war was far from ended. One day Nelson blandly called the WPB staff together for a "harmony" meeting, asked Wilson to say "a few words." Said Wilson: "I have already resigned." In a letter to President Roosevelt he accused Nelson's friends of planting newspaper stories calculated to make his life unbearable. "I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts," Wilson wrote. F.D.R. sent him home with a "Dear Charlie" letter and praise for "outstanding service...