05/03/1942
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"By virtue of the authority vested in me by the First War Powers Act, 1941, and for the purpose of enabling the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission more effectively to carry out the responsibility ..."
"I should like to make clear my unalterable opposition to any recomputation of parity at this time."
"The Chairman of the War Production Board is authorized and directed to assume full responsibility for and control over the Nation's rubber program in all of its phases."
"This is the purpose of parity."