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Wartime controls were lifted faster than the most hopeful had ever expected. War-born bureaus cut their staffs with vigor (WPB was down to 11,000 from a high of 23,000). Said WPBoss "Cap" Krug: ''The way to get going is to get going...
...WPBoss "Cap" Krug, hoping to close shop, was all for letting OWMR...
...Supply was set up. Americans and Chinese determined what could be brought in by air over the Hump,* what by trucks over the Stilwell Road, what could be expected from Chinese war production, now rising smartly under U.S. guidance and the able direction of China's scholarly WPBoss Dr. Wong Wen-hao. Proper supplies were then carefully pumped out to field units. For the first time, China's armies were adequately fed, paid in hard cash, given ammunition and guns in a steady flow...
...cutting back war production some 15%, the first phase in shifting the U.S. from a two-front to a one-front war economy, has already started. WPBoss Julius Krug told a Senate committee: the cutbacks will take place within the next three or four months...
...reconversion would take place much faster. WPBoss Krug seemed certain too. Said he guardedly: "I think the adjustments will be somewhat larger than estimated. They might finally come up to 10% greater than we have indicated...