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The Office of Production Management was a United States government agency that existed from January 1941 and was led by the Danish William Knudsen.The agency was established to centralize direction of the federal procurement programs and quasi-war production during the period immediately proceeding the United States' involvement in World War II.
The Supply Priorities and Allocations Board (SPAB) was a United States administrative entity within the Office for Emergency Management which was created and dissolved during the World War II. The board was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941, and dissolved less than five months later. [1]
Donald M. Nelson in 1947. Donald Marr Nelson (1888–1959) was an American business executive and public servant, serving as the executive vice president of Sears Roebuck before accepting the position of director of priorities of the United States Office of Production Management (1941–1942).
To oversee mobilization efforts, Roosevelt created the Office of Production Management, the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, and the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board. [ 30 ] In late 1940, Admiral Stark had sent Roosevelt the Plan Dog memo , which set forth four possible strategic war plans for fighting an anticipated ...
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. [1] The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and the Office of Production Management. [2]
On June 25, 1941, President Roosevelt created the Committee on Fair Employment Practice, generally known as the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) by signing Executive Order 8802, which stated that "there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin."
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid in a cramped attic with her family during the Nazi occupation in Amsterdam, is widely known, and amid the atrocities of the Holocaust, Anne’s ...
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