Word: wpb
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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William Francis Gibbs, 56, a cadaverous, acidulous man who looks like an undertaker but is really the No. 1 U.S. naval architect, will be WPB Controller of Shipping. He will coordinate the programs of Army, Navy and Maritime Commission, will have the duty of making sure that all U.S. shipbuilding methods are brought up to date in speed and efficiency. Mr. Gibbs likes nothing better than speed and efficiency. His radical, straight-from-the-lip methods lie behind the technological revolution which made four-day Liberty Ships possible (TIME, Sept. 28); his firm of Gibbs & Cox is responsible...
...manufacture of parts. For this task Ralph Cordiner has had double-barreled experience: he was an expert on precision instruments at General Electric; as president of Schick, Inc. for the last three years, he has supervised conversion of a peacetime plant to their manufacture. With Cordiner and Gibbs, WPB had added two rough-&-tumble realists...
From old-time Democrats, from tried & true party workers, came a clamor about jobs already given out in OPA and WPB. With but few exceptions, top places in these agencies were assigned on a non-political basis. State Democratic leaders choked with wrath when they found regional OPA and WPB offices headed by and staffed with Republicans. This political unorthodoxy extended even to the Solid South: the OPA regional rationing officer (eight States) is Georgia's G.O.P. national committeeman ; Georgia's OPAdministrator campaigned for Willkie in 1940. Said a prominent Missouri Democrat: "Those bureaus [are] all full...
Vice Chairman Charles Edward Wilson had emerged, through a "compromise" of the WPB-Army fight, as a bona fide production boss with the power to say yes and no. Under new authority he received last week he will survey Army & Navy production schedules, balance them against industrial capacity and materials supplies, make sure that they can and do get completed. These powers suited able Charles Wilson...
...Ickes already has taken three steps aimed at upping rail deliveries to New England at least 30% to 300,000 bbl. daily. The steps: 1) No rail tank-car deliveries to five 'Southern states, western New York and Pennsylvania (the cars will rush oil to New England); 2) WPB permission to build 300 tank trailer trucks, each of 4,000-gallon capacity; 3) Early assignment to oil service of some of the 26,000 cars now used to haul vegetable oils, chemicals, alcohol and wine...