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BEW

American  
  1. Board of Economic Warfare.


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BEW had great plans to cut off oil from Spain, get useful chrome instead of useless gold from South Africa; the State Department cooled them off in a hurry.

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Busy Wickard began combing the block-long, cubicled corridors of his department for a second-in-command, an operations chief to help him as Milo Perkins runs BEW for Henry Wallace.

From Time Magazine Archive

BEW would simply handle the financial and technical ends of procurement.

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On it is represented many a branch of the Government, the Army, Navy, BEW, Lend-Lease, State Department and WPB� each a pressure group in its own sphere.

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BEW took the final say on international trade away from the State Department, the first successful raid by the New Deal on Secretary Hull's demesne since 1933.

From Time Magazine Archive

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