Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Rounding out the Saturday morning program was a discussion of "The Controlled Materials Plan as an Aid to War Production," by E. T. Dickinson, executive director of the planning committee of the WPB...
...landed in Northern Ireland, the eyes of the U.S. people were on the Pacific theater. They learned that a month earlier the Navy had blasted the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. At home they were embroiled in a heated fight over abolition of the 40-hour week. Robert Guthrie, WPB's textile division head, accused $1-a-year men of preventing total conversion of industry to war, resigned in a huff. (The last car had rolled off Detroit's assembly lines...
...that same day: Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, riled by a charge in Eugene Meyer's Washington Post that he had failed to lay in a sufficient rubber stockpile, punched Mr. Meyer at a Washington party; WPB cut out the use of iron and steel in golf clubs 50%; pink-cheeked Gaston Henry-Haye, Ambassador of Vichyfrance, presented Franklin Roosevelt with a bound volume of the speeches of Marshal Petain to "enlighten" the President on the "general principles that the Marshal is following...
...major switch in strategy seemed to be forthcoming when WPB stopped construction of new war plants, ordered all raw materials to be used in production...
...lumber and began thinking about a plan to get the popguns into the war: they wanted to use $100,000,000 of Commodity Credit Corp. funds as a central pool to buy and sell whatever the popguns could be persuaded to produce. But when the plan was submitted to WPB's Lumber Division, under Masonite Corp. President Ben Alexander, it hit a don't-flood-the-market school of thought and bogged down...