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Show WPB Lifts Controls On Consumer Products In a series of sweeping moves to facilitate the reconversion of industry indus-try and speed the flow of a wide variety of peacetime products into the hands of consumers, while still avoiding price inflation, pre-emption of scarce supplies, or a buyers scramble, the War Production Board dropped 210 more individual individ-ual controls over industry, J. Krug, WPB chairman says. Limitations on the number of radios, ra-dios, refrigerators and trucks that could be manufactured for civilian use were removed. Restrictions on a' long list of other products were listed and the materials freed for consumer goods.Affected are metal urniture, domestic stoves and laundry laun-dry equipment, electric fans.motor-cycles, fans.motor-cycles, storage batteries, photo-film, photo-film, shipping containers, oil-burning equipment, silk and cotton duck, as well as a large number of other products. |