Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...WPB offices seethed and simmered. Down the halls went whispers of revolt and counter-revolt. WPB was in the midst of a palace revolution-which would either save the day or hasten the failure...
...gone away dog-tired, his nerves deckle-edged, and almost willing to give in and give up. Now the weary wrinkles had left his brown eyes; the sag was gone from his padded cheeks; he was as fighting mad as a peaceable man can get. His friends in WPB passed word around: a new Nelson had returned for a fight to the finish...
...American consumer, addicted for years to swearing by Camay, Camels, and Camphor, Ice, is in for a rude shock. His favorite brands may soon disappear from the market if the plans of WPB for concentrating civilian production in a few "nuclear" plants is adopted. Worried by the wastefulness of permitting every factory in an industry to spend most of its energies on war production and some of it in supplying civil markets, the concentration committee is drafting a program to allocate all non-essential production to a few plants which will give it their full attention. Brand-names and trademarks...
Despite complaints, actual and potential, WPB's new program must be formulated at once and applied as soon as possible thereafter. Britain has concentrated production of everything from bedding to umbrellas, and partly for that reason has raised her per-capita war production to a point above that of the United States. Tearing a leaf from the British book is one way of stealing the laurels from Hitler...
Steel output steadied at least 5% below peak operating capacity. The recent re-rating of high priority orders has done little to help distribution and many a small steelmaker beefs about precious time lost in filling out scads of WPB forms and questionnaires. Power output is still one of the bright spots in production with U.S. utilities pumping out record amounts of juice each week...