You might be surprised by the number of things you use or rely on in work and play can be traced back to Army ingenuity or ...

The War Production Board, long an advocate of incentive wages to speed up U.S. war production, this week backed its argument with some startling proof. During 1944, WPB’s Management Consultant ...

President Franklin Roosevelt established the War Production Board within weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack by Executive Order, with authority to regulate the wartime economy, soon replaced with ...

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(see LEAR SIEGLER, INC.) that was singled out after the war by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, for the following accolade: "By paying exceptionally attractive wages, making ...

To make this possible, President Franklin D Roosevelt set up the War Production Board in January 1941. This was run by the industrialist Henry J Kaiser, who had also run the Tennessee Valley ...

In January 1942, the War Production Board was created to convert industries from peacetime work to meet the demands of war. During this time: ...

In an attempt to coordinate government war agencies Roosevelt created the War Production Board in 1942 and later in 1943 the Office of War Mobilization. To raise money for defense, the government ...

According to Johnson & Johnson company history, the president passed her letter on to the War Production Board. The board approved of the change and asked a Johnson & Johnson operating company to ...