Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Detail-ridden Donald Nelson, chief of the War Production Board, gave trusted Deputy James S. Knowlson full power over priorities, turned WPB's machine-tool branch into a full-fledged division...
...first fortnight of WPB's campaign to recover copper from idle, excess and frozen stocks, 1,000,000 Ib. were turned...
...said he could have got the steel on the black market if they had let him alone-thus illuminating one big reason why no one yet knows where the U.S.'s steel is going. And neither he nor his Congressmen-nor the U.S. at large-could see why WPB could not have foreseen such a steel shortage in March when he got his contract...
...Federal Government is still pushing new construction at breakneck pace, despite the curb on expansion announced by WPB six weeks ago (TIME, May 25). Engineering construction awards in the July 9 week were $401,603,000, second highest weekly total in U.S. history and 34% above last year. Private builders had very little to do with the total. They signed only $8,237,000 contracts; the Federal Government signed 98% of all the rest...
...Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...