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...Waring sees it, the biggest post-war job for rural newspapers will be in getting communities to "sit" on post-war projects. "For two years after the last war," he explains, "there were plenty of jobs, plenty of money, and things had to be bought at peak prices. Then a depression came." He warns against a similar mad wave of spending following the present...
...Roosevelt commissioned a full-length statistical portrait of the year. He asked that the regular Census of Manufactures, scheduled for 1945, be moved up to 1944: "The record should include an account of our industrial system while it is geared up for maximum production. This may well be the peak year of production for many years to come...
...could say whether Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser was doing more than Planebuilder Donald Douglas or G.M.'s Charles E. Wilson or Big Steel's Ben Fairless. All together, they had sweated and strained to get war production to its peak and keep it there. The production lines spewed out so many tanks, planes and materiel of all kinds that, by midyear, the problem was considered no longer one of production but of cutbacks...
...tomorrow did not come in 1944. U.S. war spending, which reached its peak in June, and then was expected to start down, stayed at $250,000,000 per day, near the peak. Almost unnoticed, tight-shut ammunition plants were reopened, big new contracts were loaded on businessmen who had once worried about cutbacks. At first the explanation was that new Army & Navy tactics, plus new discoveries, demanded new weapons. But when WPBoss Krug, who walked the tight line between civilian and military demands, slapped a "freeze" on any more civilian production, the explanation of new tactics was not enough...
...industries engaged in reconversion planning along with their war work, that the jobs of reconversion and postwar employment are less fearsome, the closer they come. N.A.M. predicted that: 1) 95% of all U.S. industry could complete reconversion within eight weeks; 2) 76% of the manufacturers could reach peak production in that time; 3) postwar employment in manufacturing would be 30% higher than...