It started by rationing important and limited commodities such as heating oil, gasoline, rubber, metals like copper and aluminum, steel, plastics, and paper. As such the WPB was converting industries from peacetime production to wartime output, creating important national priorities in distributing services and goods, and stopping all non important production nationwide. The board became dissolved at the conclusion of the war with the final defeat of the Japanese in The Civilian Production Administration then replaced it in an effort to reconvert production back to a normal market forces controlled peace time economy in late Thanks to the efficiency of this board, the war effort in both Europe and the Pacific proved to be ultimately successful.
The chairman and his council decided to channel production into a set military hardware production and distribution. This led to a quarter of all national output going into the production of warplanes, while another quarter became allocated to naval warships.
Other munitions and civilian needs comprised the balance 50 percent of national production and output. The War Production Board proved to be so effective on a national and local scale because it operated through 12 regional offices as well as over field offices scattered throughout the country.
The Spaniards captured two schooners, having on board 22 officers and 30 men, all of whom were hanged or sent to the mines. She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with passengers on board, of whom but were saved. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! Abbreviation : WPB, W. Abolished November 24, Three of its functional divisions Industrial Production, Industrial Materials, and Labor , responsible for the stockpiling and delivery of critical raw materials, were integrated into the Office of Production Management, established in OEM by EO , January 7, , to develop and execute policies relating to the production of defense materials.
See Textual Records: "Policy Documentation File," comprising selected records of organizational units of the WPB and its predecessors and successors, ft.
Equipment "E" , limitation "L" , conservation "M" , preference rating "P" , rubber "R" , and utilities "U" orders, , with gaps. Orders and regulations manual, Priority regulations, , with gaps. Quarterly reports of operating units of the CPA, Program control reports, Historical reports relating to policies and operations of the WPB and its predecessors "Special Studies Series" , Historical studies, bibliographies, and other records relating to the organization and activities of the War Industries Board "War Industry Board Manuals" , Organizational and procedural data "Administrative Reference File" , Textual Records: Microfilm copy of applications for certificates of necessity, protection, and nonreimbursement, 1, rolls.
WPB manpower survey reports and budget estimates, Office procedures file, Microfilm copy of press releases, 53 rolls. Textual Records: Records of the Division of Personnel Management, including Classification Section subject file, ; Field Unit general correspondence, ; position descriptions, ; and lists of cancelled positions, Records of the Division of Industry Operations, consisting of the Division Director's files, ; office file of the special assistant to the Division Director, ; and records relating to the chemical industry, Records of the Foreign Division, including Director's file, ; and records of the Assistant and Deputy Director relating to lend-lease to the Soviet Union, Correspondence of the Office of General Counsel,
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