War Manpower Commission

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. the board (1942–45) that regulated the most efficient use of labor during World War II. : WMC

Example Sentences

During the war, the War Manpower Commission sent prisoners to non-war production factories, canneries and farms throughout Indiana.

From Washington Times

Melvin Butler leaned on the US Civil Service Commission and the War Manpower Commission as hard as he could so that the laboratory might get top priority on the limited pool of qualified applicants.

From Literature

That program, established in 1942, was a joint venture of the War Manpower Commission and the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services.

From Time

In Manhattan, Jean A. Brunner asked his niece what she did in her Washington war job, was told: "I work in the data-analysis group of the aptitude-test subunit of the worker-analysis section of the division of occupational analysis and manning tables of the bureau of labor utilization of the War Manpower Commission."

From Time Magazine Archive

The visit was an eloquent demonstration of a fact which the War Manpower Commission is just now learning the hard way: men & women do not respond according to the slide rule.

From Time Magazine Archive