Office of War Mobilization
United States government
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role in World War II
- In United States: War production
…mobilization, and in 1943 an Office of War Mobilization was established to supervise the host of defense agencies that had sprung up in Washington, D.C. Gradually, a priorities system was devised to supply defense plants with raw materials; a synthetic rubber industry was developed from scratch; rationing conserved scarce resources;…
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role of Byrnes
- In James F. Byrnes
…and later head of the Office of War Mobilization. He was thus vested with authority over production, procurement, and distribution of all civilian and military goods, manpower allocation, and economic stabilization.
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