Word: wpb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remembering the war, ,the average citizen could not feel justified in weeping, either over this advice or over his own plight. There were no new pillows to cry in, anyway: WPB had ordered all duck and goose feathers reserved for the Army...
Virkus made a big noise all through the corridors of WPB. Van Slyck quietly dug up the figures for his newspaper. Typical case cited by Van Slyck: some 120 small manufacturers got together as the Chicago Defense Association, Inc., lost three months getting their anti-trust clearance, financial status and ability okayed by Washington,.finally got a chance to bid on an $18,000,000 parachute flare order...
...WPB gave beekeepers A-3 priorities on materials for all production of honey up to their 1940 level, tin to pack as much honey (in 5-lb. or bigger containers) as they could turn...
...Though Jesse Jones admitted having trouble getting his 400,000 tons of synthetic rubber under contract, WPB's Bill Batt told a Senate committee that the new goal is 600,000 tons...
Denverites had good reason to be proud: the launching meant that their subcontracting problem had been licked. Led by a former incubator manufacturer, Clyde C. Hartzell (now head of WPB's Denver contract-distribution office), a pool of eight local steel-products manufacturers and 15 smaller machine shops landed a $56,000,000 hull subcontract two months ago. They did so well on their first job that this week they landed a second. Now the pool is working on fittings and hulls for 27 ships, expects it will tax every machine shop in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico...