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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 four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest ... And there were all kinds of jobs.” World War II utterly transformed Mobile and its economy. The explosion began ...