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When & if the tax is passed, the Treasury has one partial solution: it can get some machines from WPB's stockpile. The Government doesn't worry about what private employers will...
...would state flatly that the situation is now so critical that all pleasure driving should be eliminated and automobiles used only for essential business. He and his brainy colleagues, James Bryant Conant and Karl Taylor Compton, had also looked at the synthetic-rubber program finally gotten under way by WPB (TIME, July 20) and found it good. He was expected to recommend...
...That WPB's synthetic program be followed in every detail...
...would lease the lion's share of the 14 short-wave stations' time for the war's duration; it would build 22 new transmitters, sell them to licensees after the war. The War Communications Board has already nodded approval and final action now awaits only WPB and Army & Navy clearance on materials needed to build the new transmitters...
...liquor production will stop completely on or before Nov. 1. This jolting news hit front pages all over the country last week when prim, precise WPB Alcohol Expert Matthew MacNamara revealed that U.S. distillers would be 100% converted to war alcohol within two months. The U.S. needs alcohol for its huge synthetic-rubber program, its booming smokeless powder plants, its busy plastics and chemical factories...