When Martinius and Bruna have gone over the revenue from the potato harvest, talk turns to the new barn and the needed lumber being controlled by the "WPB". Audiences at the time would know that meant the War Production Board. Established in January 1942, this agency of the federal government was tasked with converting the economy to war production and controlled vital materials and their distribution via rationing, ran scrap drives, controlled wages and prices, and more.

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