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Cutbacks. As soon as Germany is beaten, war production will be cut back 50%, if WPB's Donald Nelson gets his way; 35% if the Army has the say. U.S. economy has expanded so much that even a 35% cutback is expected to provide almost as much manpower, material and facilities for civilian production as before...
...WPB took the first big step toward orderly reconversion 'from war to peace by releasing surplus magnesium and aluminum for civilian production...
WPBoss Donald Nelson, a weak and weary pneumonia convalescent, won a big battle by telephone last week. Nelson had issued the first WPB directive permitting the resumption of civilian production. A majority of his lieutenants, backed solidly by the Army & Navy, had pigeonholed the order, in his absence (TIME, July...
...make cars, the industry was far too deeply engaged in war production to consider it now. The real reason: the War Production Board's "Blue Order," under which the industry could order production materials now for delivery later, was only paper. Automen would not get the materials until WPB decided to release them; and no automan can plan production unless he knows what materials he will get, how much, and when...
...closed Washington meeting, representatives of nine major companies reminded WPB that passenger-car production was predicated on military cutbacks -but that there had been no cutbacks. In fact, one representative said, the industry had been getting an increasing amount of war work.* Also there was no way to guarantee the present first-year production estimate of 2,150,000 cars. The deciding factor will be whether victory in Europe comes in a trickle or a torrent...