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Background - NRA and WIB
The '''War Production Board''' (WPB) was established in 1942 by executive order of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during [[World War II]] in the [[United States of America]]. It rationed such things as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics. It was dissolved shortly after the victory over [[Japan]] in 1945.
The '''War Production Board''' (WPB) was established in 1942 by executive order of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during [[World War II]] in the [[United States of America]]. It rationed such things as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics. It was dissolved shortly after the victory over [[Japan]] in 1945.
==Mismanagement==
==Background==
Donald Nelson was made head of the War Production Board in January 1942. Nelson proved inadequate to the task, so in February 1943, the Secretary of War and other administrative leaders joined in asking President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] to replace Nelson. Roosevelt took no action for 18 months.<ref>Henry L. Stimson, ;''On Active Service in Peace and War,'' with MacGeorge Bundy (Harper, 1948), pgs. 492 to 495.</ref>
The War Production Board was initially modeled on the [[War Industries Board]] and according to Historian [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]], it looked like an "NRA reunion." ([[National Recovery Administration]]) <ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_FDR_Years/0m9XuIyDiugC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA74 The FDR Years - On Roosevelt and His Legacy]</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Unto_a_Good_Land/3CT4_tCoPTgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA906 Unto a Good Land - A History of the American People, Volume 2: From 1865]</ref>
Mired in mismanagement, Donald Nelson was initially made head of the War Production Board in January 1942. Nelson proved inadequate to the task, so in February 1943, the Secretary of War and other administrative leaders joined in asking President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] to replace Nelson. Roosevelt took no action for 18 months.<ref>Henry L. Stimson, ;''On Active Service in Peace and War,'' with MacGeorge Bundy (Harper, 1948), pgs. 492 to 495.</ref>
==Powers and Responsibilities==
==Powers and Responsibilities==