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...budgets of eight war agencies (OWI, WPB, Censorship, ODT, PAW, FSA, WMC and the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...WPB had promised that when the time came for big-scale reconversion, all of industry would get off to an equal start. Last week it followed up these comforting words with comforting action. It set aside top priorities for some $102,000,000 in machine tools and new construction for all of the 72 major industries which had converted their facilities to war work...
This put the makers of pianos & piccolos on the same footing as Detroit's automakers, who have long hoped for special reconversion favors. It disappointed the automen, but it pleased those who had feared that WPB planned to shift the U.S. back to peace cautiously, industry by industry, and thus penalize some...
...with CMP. By September, WPB hopes to have industry shifted from producing for a two-front to a one-front war. By then, it hopes that most materials will be so plentiful that it can drop the Controlled Materials Plan completely. All that industry will have to worry about will be a simple priority system for war orders and essential civilian production...
...these first great steps to shift the U.S. from a two-front war to a one-front war did mean that, as war contracts are canceled, the manpower and materials freed will be shunted into civilian plants with a minimum of red tape. WPB still held up the go-ahead for the making of autos, refrigerators and washing machines...