Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Workingmen's clothes will have fewer frills, pockets, buttons and buckles under a new WPB order. Estimated annual saving: 21 million yards of cloth, 125 million yards of thread, 150 million buttons, 12 million buckles...
...them to file their estimated materials needs for the last quarter of 1942, and to tell what they did with the materials allocated them last spring. These reports will provide millions of statistics. The real test of Purp will be what use, if any, WPB can make of such a mountain of figures...
...review its requirements carefully, it will find the shortages not as bad as feared. The pinch has been exaggerated." Yet last week, for lack of materials, WTright Aeronautical had to shut down one 3,000-man department of its huge Paterson (N.J.) engine plant for two days; last week WPB admitted that the available supply of steel in June was 5,690,000 tons v. a total demand for 11,075,000 tons. A critical cross section of U.S. war production was working way below capacity for lack of materials. To stop this-through better materials scheduling and through building...
...steel pinch is tighter than ever. As its solution of the problem, WPB gravely issued a flock of super-priority ratings (like AAA, AA-1, AA-2) to some former holders of the highly prized Aia. Results are fantastic. Machine-tool builders, for example, cannot even wangle a promise of delivery on their A-1-a orders...
...With WPB's fond blessing, Standard is now scheduled to produce by next spring 132,000 tons of butyl instead of the 60,000 tons originally planned. Since test runs have recently proved that butyl will make a light-duty tire good for at least 16,000 miles at 40 m.p.h. or less, the 72,000 extra tons of butyl will give the U.S. more than 12,000,000 serviceable tires (8% of the tires now on U.S. passenger cars) over & above what it had previously had any reason to hope...