War Production Board

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. the board (1942–45) that supervised and regulated the production and sale of matériel essential to the logistics of World War II. : WPB, W.P.B.

Example Sentences

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met several times with defense contractors, but why hasn’t President Biden appointed the equivalent of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s War Production Board?

From Washington Post

At the time, Mr. Biden pledged that as president he would form a pandemic testing board — a play on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s War Production Board — and vastly increase testing.

From New York Times

Biden campaigned on his commitment to jump-start coronavirus testing, unveiling a “Pandemic Testing Board” proposal in June 2020 that he compared to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s War Production Board, which oversaw the rapid conversion of civilian factories to make supplies for the U.S. military during World War II.

From Washington Post

Ultimately, five million pounds of scrap was delivered to the War Production Board using what became known as the Nebraska Plan.

From New York Times

Another order establishes a Pandemic Testing Board, an idea drawn from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s War Production Board, to ramp up testing.

From New York Times