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...WPB slashed the production of passenger car tires for the first quarter of 1945 by 1,650,000; junked all tire-rationing certificates issued before March, 1944; informed A-card drivers that they could: 1) try to find recaps next year or 2) get off the roads...
...WPB, invoking some of its sweeping priority powers for the first time in the war, ruled that hereafter, if employers ignore WMC regulations while the Government is trying to get 300,000 more workers into war plants, WPB may snatch away the offending company's fuel, materials, transportation...
...WPB froze until further notice, at present levels, all civilian goods production...
...encomium: "If it [the Nelson mission] had happened as much as one year ago, I believe the present situation would be far better." To Franklin Roosevelt, Don Nelson brought a heartening report. With the Generalissimo's full cooperation, the Nelson mission had launched at Chungking a Chinese WPB...
...Board, had chosen as its boss honest, able Dr. Wong Wen-hao, renowned geologist and Minister of Economic Affairs. What he wanted the Americans to do was to buckle down at once to the details of the organization job. Their first chore: drafting an organic law for the Chinese WPB...