War Production Board
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war-production-board-174-10704466
title:
War Production Board
text:
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and the Office of Production Management. The WPB directed conversion of companies engaged in activities relevant to war from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distrib
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
World War II US government agency
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board
date created:
2005-04-21T15:20:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T00:47:45Z
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