Minutes, January 20, 1942 to October 9, 1945 |
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acting agencies aircraft allocation aluminum approved Army and Navy barrels per day billion dollars butadiene capacity Civilian Supply construction consumption copper curtailment D. M. NELSON Defense Transportation deliveries Deputy Director discussion of Item Division duction Board Eberstadt equipment estimated Executive Secretary facilities Ferdinand Eberstadt Frank Knox fuel oil Ickes increase industry John Lord O'Brian Knowlson labor left the meeting Leon Henderson Limitation Order Lucius D Lyle Belsley manpower ment military million tons months Navy Department Navy Munitions Board needed Office of Civilian Office of Defense Office of Price Operations ordnance output Patterson percent Petroleum Coordinator Planning plants pointed present Price Administration priority problem Procurement and Material Production Board Progress Reports projects rationing of gasoline reduced schedules Secretary of War shortage Special Assistant steel synthetic rubber tankers tires U. S. Maritime Commission Vice Chairman War Department War Production Board Weiner Wickard Wilson WPB Minutes
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Page 53 - Nation's manpower in the event of war; (2) programs for the effective use in time of war of the Nation's natural and industrial resources for military and civilian needs, for the maintenance and stabilization of the civilian economy in time of war, and for the adjustment of such economy to war needs and conditions...
Page 53 - Formulate legislative programs designed to facilitate the most effective mobilization and utilization of the manpower of the country; and, with the approval of the President, recommend such legislation as may be necessary for this purpose.
Page 53 - Prescribe basic policies governing the filling of the Federal Government's requirements for manpower, excluding those of the military and naval forces, and issue such operating directives as may be necessary thereto.
Page 92 - Combine the production programs of the United States and the United Kingdom into a single integrated program, adjusted to the strategic requirements of the war, as indicated to the Board by the Combined Chiefs of Staff, and to all relevant production factors. In this connection, the Board...
Page 11 - The superiority of the United Nations in munitions and ships must be overwhelming — so overwhelming that the Axis nations can never hope to catch up with it.
Page 289 - Hereafter as manpower, facilities and materials become available in any given area, it shall be the policy of the War Production Board to authorize the production within that area of additional civilian goods, provided such production does not limit production for programs of higher urgency.12 WMC Chairman McNutt and the Under-Secretaries of War and Navy were present and did not object.
Page 168 - January 11 at 10:30 o'clock and at that time, the witnesses will be officials of the Office of Price Administration and the Office of Defense Transportation.
Page 340 - ... numbers that the Chairman had to a large extent based the four proposed orders. He is most anxious to prevent local unemployment at a time when materials and facilities are available.22 After extended debate, McNutt moved a resolution that in view of the chairman's illness and the Board's opinion that "the issuance of the proposed orders at the present time would interfere with war production," they be postponed until Nelson's return.