Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Harrington twins have four subcontracts, have given jobs to two brothers-in-law and five other employes, who keep the same hectic hours and share the profits. Says Rockford's local WPB director: "They're doing a swell job. I don't think they knew what they were getting into when they started, but they had the nerve to make a success...
...classic muddle of scientific war research was tidied up by WPB's Donald Nelson last week. He finally created a long-awaited agency, the Office of Production Research & Development, named its director: 61-year-old Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis, president of Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology...
Originally called the Office of Technical Development, OPRD aims to: 1) provide Nelson with data on WPB's technical problems; 2) pass on suggestions which come to WPB through outside sources; 3) farm out experimental work; 4) when necessary, construct full-size pilot plants. Working on industrial problems, it will parallel rather than supplant the Office of Scientific Research & Development, which is concerned with research in munitions and war weapons...
...Production Requirements Committee, which at last possesses the basic facts on the size of the scarce materials pie, will slice it into seven pieces-for Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW, Civilian Supply and Charles Edward Wilson's new aircraft scheduling unit in WPB...
...These agencies will slice their pieces into smaller ones for their prime contractors-who will already have consulted with WPB's materials branches on their total needs...