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	War Production Board Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The War Production Board (WPB) was established in 1942 by executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States.
		Soviet intelligence penetrated the War Production Board, including several members of the Perlo group and its head Victor Perlo.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/War_Production_Board.html (483 words)

	UCLA Anderson School of Management \| Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies \| Harold Price
		During World War II, Harold was with the War Productions Board in Washington, D.C. and administered the national program for the conservation of honey.
		After the war, he was involved in an expansion program involving the buyout of similar companies by the Joe Lowe Corporation.
		Price challenged the program's Board of Advisors to form a support group, the Friends of the Entrepreneurial Studies Center, who would provide personal support, as well as the matching capital to permanently endow the school's entrepreneurial activities.
	www.anderson.ucla.edu /x875.xml (461 words)

	War Production Board. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The WPB converted and expanded the peacetime economy to maximum war production; controls included assignment of priorities to deliveries of scarce materials and prohibition of nonessential industrial activities.
		During its three-year existence the WPB supervised the production of $185 billion worth of weapons and supplies.
		Businessmen serving with the WPB were sharply criticized by a Senate committee headed by Harry S. Truman.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wa/WarProdu.html (203 words)

	War Production Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The powers of the board included general direction over war procurement and production programs including the allocation of materials and production facilities.
		Production, yes-it will be easy to get production without either strikes or sabotage; production with the wholehearted cooperation between willing arms and keen brains; enthusiasm, zip, energy geared to the tempo of keeping at it everlastingly day after day.
		The War Production Board shall move as rapidly as feasible without endangering orderly reconversion and the stabilization of the economy to free business from its controls.
	home.cfl.rr.com /featherweight/board.htm (492 words)

	The Great War: The Film & More
		World War One has started and markets in Europe are shut off but people around the world still need products, industrial and agricultural products.
		Wages had been held down during World War 1 because it was a patriotic thing to do and after WWI a boom was happening around the country and wages were not keeping up with inflation.
		But boy, as soon as the war ended in 1919, by 1919 the Socialists were not considered a legitimate part any more of the Nevada political scene.
	www.knpb.org /productions/GreatWar/driggs.asp (5018 words)

	The Watchtower's Benefit from War Production Materials
		Labor unions offered "no strike pledges" during the war, although few were kept, and taxes in general were raised, all in an effort to get the country prepared for war.
		New York investment banker Ferdinand Eberstadt was appointed chairman of the Army and Navy Munitions Board and vice chairman of the War Productions Board.
		The War Productions Board was quickly dissolved in November 1945, after the defeat of Japan.
	www.freeminds.org /history/warmaterials.htm (2473 words)

	History of Postwar AAR Boxcars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At the same time, restrictions imposed by the War Productions Board meant that few new pieces of equipment were built during this period.
		Prior to the war, most boxcars were 40 feet or less long and 10 feet or less interior height.
		In the mid 1930’s a few roads introduced cars with 10’6" interior heights, but it wasn’t until the end of the war that 10’6" interior heights were accepted as the norm.
	www.branchline-trains.com /blueprint/history.htm (690 words)

	Ferdinand Eberstadt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Recognized for his negotiating skills in financial matters, Eberstadt was invited by the Hoover administration to participate in the 1929 World War I reparations conference in Paris as an assistant to Owen D. Young.
		In September of 1942, Donald M. Nelson, the former vice-president of Sears Roebuck, and chairman of the United States War Production Board (WPB) called upon the skills of Ferdinand Eberstadt, appointing him chairman of the Army and Navy Munitions Board and vice chairman of the War Productions Board.
		At the end of the War, on behalf of Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal, Eberstadt wrote what became known as the Eberstadt Report that identified a serious lack of coordination between the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department and the military intelligence services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_Eberstadt (630 words)

	fword preview
		The parallel war in the Pacific was of secondary concern.
		With the outbreak of World War II, the genocidal agenda behind the rapidly proliferating eugenics foundations was revealed to the world, and the movement had to temporarily retreat to the fetid swamps and sewers from which it had emerged.
		After the war, psychiatrist Edwin Katzen-ellenbogen - a former member of the faculty at Harvard - was convicted of war crimes that he had committed as a 'doctor' at Buchenwald concentration camp; during his trial in Dachau, he proudly testified that he had drafted the sterilization law for the governor of New Jersey.
	www.davesweb.cnchost.com /fwordpreview.htm (17007 words)

	Town Players of Pittsfield, Inc. : Past Performance Information : By the Years
		Town Players of Pittsfield, Inc. was founded in 1921 as a local Berkshire community theater group to put on plays on a regular schedule.
		Productions have been put on since that time, except for the war years when only a number of special War Fund-Raisers were performed.
		Town Players presently produces at least three productions a season that are performed at Berkshire Community College Koussevitsky Arts Center.
	www.berkshirenet.com /townplayers/TP-PERF.htm (300 words)

	American Studies-Resource Site
		To make sense of the suit, Kelley must look at when and where people wore the suit, at what was happening in the larger world and at what kind of statement people made by wearing a suit in that context.
		Moreover, within months of Malcolm [X]'s first zoot, the political and social context of war had added an explicit dimension to the implicit oppositional meaning of the suit; it had become an explicitly un-American style.
		Thus when Malcolm donned his "killer-diller coat with a drape-shape, reat-pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell," his lean body became a dual signifier of opposition -- a rejection of both fl petit bourgeois respectability and American patriotism.
	www.trincoll.edu /~tvogel/zoot.htm (288 words)

	Conforums.com - Free Message Boards and Message Board hosting
		Amendment to Conforums Terms of Service, Section 3, Line E. User's may not use Conforums' user base traffic to generate revenue on their message board by means of advertisement campaigns or any other similar methods.
		This allows you to create any kind of web community you wish, whether it be for a personal website, business communications or even a way to manage data, you will always have the freedom to change.
		Conforums Support isn't just a place to only seek technical support, but it is also a place where other Conforums members come to share their graphical ideas, programming ideas, promote their own web communities, and keep up on the latest events with the Conforums System.
	www.conforums.com (445 words)

	ADC Package (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In February 1942, just a couple of months after America's entry into World War II, the War Productions Board issued Limitation Order L-41, which completely forbade the fabrication or material purchases of eighty different appliances.
		Proctor, and other appliance manufacturers had to retool and begin making things like bomb fuses, cartridges, and wing flaps.
		In 1946 with the war over, and America hungry for consumer goods, manufacturers raced to meet the demand.
	www.hamiltonbeach.com /company/museum/procad.html (145 words)

	WarTimers - The World's Finest Military Timepieces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The firm then moved into watch production in 1912 and introduced a groundbreaking series of wristwatches at the end of WWI.
		During the Second World War, Joseph’s son Arde Bulova worked closely with the War Productions Board to produce a wide variety of military instruments, timepieces, fuses, and even torpedo mechanisms.
		Over the years, Bulova has pioneered such trends as mass media advertising, standardized production techniques, and electronic timekeeping technology.
	www.wartimers.com /product.php?id=96 (162 words)

	Manley R. Irwin \| U.S. Naval History, Amphibious Warfare & the Harding Administration
		The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia.
		Review of The Great War Generals on the Western Front by Robin Neillands, in Relevance, Quarterly Journal of the Great War Society, Winter 1999.
		Review of Their Time in Hell: The Fourth Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood, June 1918 by George B. Clark, in Relevance, Quarterly Journal of the Great War Society, Winter 1997.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~mrirwin (426 words)

	Oregon History Project
		During World War II, the U.S. government organized and promoted scrap-drives to cover shortages in basic materials such as metal, rubber, and paper.
		In October of 1942, the War Productions Board spearheaded a scrap drive with a goal of gathering 17 million tons of metal for use in the Allied effort against the Axis powers.
		Kirk, Robert Wm. “Getting in the Scrap: The Mobilization of American Children in World War II.” Journal of Popular Culture 29, 1995: 223–233.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=CBA0CB0E-9227-1C2C-FD13C4398B8107BA (178 words)

	The Impact of WWII on America's Political Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Impact of WWII on America's Political Economy
		War Productions Board - single authority - limited success
		government construction and ownership of shipyards, aircraft production, other industries
	www.auburn.edu /~polisci/U102/spin-sp95/wwii9.html (60 words)

	RPG Now: PDF Role-Playing Games, E-books, Paper Models, War Games, Board Games, and more!
		RPG Now: PDF Role-Playing Games, E-books, Paper Models, War Games, Board Games, and more!
		NOTE: If you want to buy a bunch of products, it might be a good idea to use our BURN TO CD option!
		The War To End All Wars, 2.5 Edition
	www.rpgnow.com /specials.php?&SRC=Specials (217 words)

	Message Board of Arez Presents God of War Productions - SoundClick
		Message Board of Arez Presents God of War Productions - SoundClick
		Home > Instrumentals > Beats General > Arez Presents God of War Productions > Message Board
		I just checked out your stuff, its hot!
	www.soundclick.com /bands/messageboard.cfm?bandID=335218 (117 words)

	Board & War Games - New and Out-of-Print Games from Noble Knight Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Board & War Games - New and Out-of-Print Games from Noble Knight Games
		Board Games & Miniature Rules (Creative War Games Workshop)
		Board Games (Fact & Fantasy Games - Richard Jordison)
	www.nobleknight.com /ViewManuf.asp_Q_CategoryID_E_13 (175 words)

	THE SAMUEL W. ANDERSON PAPERS: FOLDER LISTING
		DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from miscellaneous individuals to Samuel W. Anderson regarding his work at the Economic Cooperation Administration from 1948-1949, arranged chronologically, 24 items.
		Items include his application for Government employment, his entry for Who's Who, a curriculum vitae, and other documents, arranged by according to media (forms, newspaper clippings, etc.), 28 items.
		Box: 1 Fold: 13 Misc.: "Federal Maritime Board, Docket No. S-81" Book Two
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f196}1.htm (716 words)

	Warehouse 23 - Browse by Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HoL, Dirt Cheep, MapAid, Way of War, Virtual Lore, and more
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		Battle of the Bands, Portable Adventures, The Testimony of Jacob Hollow
	www.warehouse23.com /info/browse.html (323 words)

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