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War Production Board

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noun

U.S. Government.
  1. the board (1942–45) that supervised and regulated the production and sale of matériel essential to the logistics of World War II. WPB, W.P.B.


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At the time, Mr. Biden pledged that as president he would form a pandemic testing board — a play on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s War Production Board — and vastly increase testing.

From New York Times Dec. 22, 2021

Both of these mobilizations required strong federal control, the first through the War Production Board and the second through OSRD.

From Slate Mar. 27, 2020

Among them were the War Production Board, the Office of War Mobilization, the Office of Price of Administration and the War Food Administration, just to name a handful.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2020

Mrs. Cranford was born Martha Shull in Trilla, Ill., and came to Washington during World War II as a secretary at the War Production Board.

From Washington Post Jan. 2, 2016

As far back as last fall the War Production Board solemnly warned that tin was so scarce that the U.S. might run out completely in 1946.

From Time Magazine Archive

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