Word: cmp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with CMP. By September, WPB hopes to have industry shifted from producing for a two-front to a one-front war. By then, it hopes that most materials will be so plentiful that it can drop the Controlled Materials Plan completely. All that industry will have to worry about will be a simple priority system for war orders and essential civilian production...
Lieutenant, CMP...
Eberstadt was fired, but his CMP stuck as basic WPB policy, and Charlie Wilson subsequently had the courage to praise its merits...
...second great merit is that the CMP should enforce real programming (on a quarterly basis) all the way down from the Army, Navy et al to the lowest subcontractor, should halt hysterical overordering in advance of need induced by the old priorities systems...
Slow But Sure. But, though CMP is the new order of the day, it will take over the field gradually. First end-product to get the CMP treatment will be aircraft, first raw materials will be steel, copper and aluminum. Purp will still be used for "shelf good's" (like nuts and bolts and nails) where it has proved to be a simple and efficient means of scheduling...