Show next job with world war II 11 finished and with the nations great armament production due to be slashed interest mounted in the governments 1 program tor for switching industry back to a peacetime basis and providing continued high employment shortly before the cessation of hostilities president truman called in war production board chieftain krug to go over plans for speeding up to prevent a large scale rupture of the count rys economy after VJ V J 3 day at the meeting it was determined that the was to conduct a vigorous drive for or the expansion of production of materials in short supply to tb meet all demands limit manufacture of articles requiring scarce materials establish effective control over material stock piles to prevent speculative board hoarding that would endanger the stabilization i program provide priority assi assistance stence to break bottlenecks that might impede the switch be back ck to chr civilian illan goods and allocate scarce materials for lower priced articles to keep costs down |