For months U.S. citizens have been titillated by talk of "victory model" consumer durable goodsgoods made on a standardized, materials-pinching basis by a few small "nucleus" plants in each industry while bigger competitors converted to war production. Last week, however, it looked as if victory models were a mirage.
> WPB ordered all U.S. typewriter production after Oct. 31 concentrated in tiny Woodstock Typewriter Co. But it also announced that Woodstock's entire production (23,000 machines a year) will be reserved for the Army & Navy.
> WPB ordered the minuscule manufacture of the...
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