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...reconversion plan for U.S. industry after V-E day was formally unwrapped last week. Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes had given businessmen a good peek at it when he turned over his job to Fred Vinson fortnight ago, but he left it up to WPBoss Julius A. Krug to take off all the wraps. In so doing, WPBoss Krug optimistically predicted that a year after Germany quits, the U.S. will be turning out as many refrigerators, stoves and possibly autos - and all other consumers' goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Peace | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Cars When? Two days after WPBoss Krug let out his plan, he hustled to Detroit. There he conferred with automen on plans to reconvert the auto industry, biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Peace | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...when auto production will start, WPBoss Krug kept mum. But he flatly denied reports that the industry has already been given the go-ahead to turn out 250,000 cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Actually, automen knew as well as Krug that there would be no signal given for auto production until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Peace | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Donald M. Nelson, 56, Presidential assistant and ex-WPBoss just divorced after 18 years of marriage, did not deny his rumored engagement to his onetime secretary: curvesome, dimpled, brunette Marguerite Coulbourn, 26, Georgetown University's 1939 "Queen of the Campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Divorced. Donald M. Nelson, 56, special assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, ex-WPBoss, onetime Soars, Roebuck bigwig; by blond, childless Helen W. Nelson, 51; after 18 years of marriage, four of separation; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1945 | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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