GOVERNMENT: Swan Song

The war job of the War Production Board had long since been finished. Its peace job of reconversion was virtually done. So last week President Truman announced that on Nov. 3 the giant war agency that once employed 22,000 would cease to be.

In an impressive swan song, WPBoss J. A. ("Cap") Krug reported on U.S. war production. Said Krug: in five years the U.S. had more than doubled its industrial production, had out-produced not only its foes but all its allies as well, had hurled $186 billion worth of weapons and supplies...

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