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...catalogues that women seemed to be wearing daring and glamorous undercostumes during that unregimented postwar era. There were gay primary colors and the whole gamut of pastels. There were novel shapes and patterns. Lace had a place; there were ruffles and embroidery. But that was before the OPA, the WPB...
...calmly and candidly criticized the Roosevelt Administration. In 1941 he resigned his job as OPM boss of machine-tool priorities because his bluntness had him at odds with OPM bigwigs. When the OPM was reorganized, he was quickly recalled. He did advisory and expert jobs for the WPB and the Economic Stabilization Board. Lately he has been influential in the Committee for Economic Development...
Last October Funston, an ex-radiator manufacturing and WPB executive, took over the 123-year-old college's presidency. His first businesslike step: to try to take academic control from Trinity's faculty committees. Shepard, implicitly questioning Funston's educational know-how, fought the move as "autocratic." When Funston got the chance to force his outspoken star to resign, he took...
When OPM was set up, William Knudsen grabbed Cap Krug. When OPM became WPB he went along. He received a Naval commission in 1944, was sent to Normandy, then Italy, but was hauled home to replace Donald Nelson as chief of WPB...
...auto industry the go-ahead to make cars. Same day, Ford Motor Co. rolled its first car out of the Rouge plant. A slow trickle of cars, flatirons, vacuum sweepers began. General Motors' Moraine City plant, which had been making 6-29 propellers, pushed out its first refrigerators. WPB was still wondering how much reconversion would be permitted before V-J day when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Next week, the armed services sent 30,000 telegrams, canceling the bulk of war contracts. For industry, the war was finally over...