War Production Board (WPB), an emergency agency of the United States government during World War II. The WPB converted and expanded peacetime industries to meet war needs, allocated scarce materials vital to war production, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production. The WPB was created in early 1942 and replaced by the Civilian Production Administration in late 1945.
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