In an attempt to coordinate government war agencies Roosevelt created the War Production Board in 1942 and later in 1943 the Office of War Mobilization. To raise money for defense, the government ...

They called it Billion Gallon Day – the moment on Dec. 14, 1944, when t Humble Refinery and its 14,000 workers outproduced ...

To make this possible, President Franklin D Roosevelt set up the War Production Board in January 1941. This was run by the industrialist Henry J Kaiser, who had also run the Tennessee Valley ...

In January 1942, the War Production Board was created to convert industries from peacetime work to meet the demands of war. During this time: ...