Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...flying red horse (Mobilgas), fireman's hat (Texaco), sea shell (Shell Petroleum) and other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...
Donald Nelson's new high command last week took charge. While one of WPB's new vice chairmen, Ferdinand Eberstadt, set out to make sense out of the distribution of materials the other new vice chairman, General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson, called the first of the biweekly meetings, whose object is to substitute cooperation for acrimony in the relations between WPB and the departments whose job it is to supply...
...next system is a plan to eliminate the statistical delays which kept Purp's allotments always weeks behind time; a plan to relieve WPB of the burden of trying to calculate how many brass screws each manufacturer in Kokomo, Ind. will need in the month of November; a plan to give producers assurance that when they get a war order they will also get the materials to fulfill it; a plan to give war factories a call not merely on materials that the Government fondly hopes they can have but on materials that they actually...
...first time the U.S. Government last week officially recognized the production efforts of individual factory workers, handed five Packard Motor Car employes WPB's newly created award for production short cuts. The Packard Stakhanovites* received almost one-third of all the awards made-got the only award handed to the automobile industry...
Result is that Packard has met every WPB quota. Despite higher & higher goals, aircraft-engine production was 17% above quota in May, 14% above in June and 13% above in July. Marine-engine output shows smaller gains. And since the plan started, there have been no strikes, no slowdowns, not even a minor labor fracas. Cheers. This has brought cheers from management, labor, Government. Three months ago Christopher twinkled through his spectacles, said the plan had "greatly increased production, stepped up efficiency, lessened waste." Union Man Murdock went overboard, said "the plan has worked out so well it has even...