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Abbreviations ACAD Automotive Committee for Air Defense ACWP Automotive Council for War Production Collection, NAHC AMA Automobile Manufacturers Association ANMB Army-Navy Munitions Board BFRC Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan CCA Chrysler Corporate Archives, Detroit, Michigan CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations CKH Author’s personal collection CPFF Cost-plus-a-fixed-fee (type of contract) CPPC Cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost (type of contract) DPC Defense Plant Corporation FDRL Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New york FHA Federal Housing Authority GMCMA General Motors Corporation Media Archives GMHC General Motors Heritage Center, Sterling Heights, Michigan GOCO Government-owned, contractor-operated NAHC National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan NDAC National Defense Advisory Commission NDMB National Defense Mediation Board NDRC National Defense Research Committee NWLB National War Labor Board OPA Office of Price Administration OPACS Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply xii AbbreviAtions OPM Office of Production Management OWM Office of War Mobilization QC Quartermaster Corps RFC Reconstruction Finance Corporation SA/KU Richard P. Scharchburg Archives, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan SM Buick Gallery and Research Center, Sloan Museum, Flint, Michigan SPAB Supply, Priorities and Allocations Board SWPC Smaller War Plants Corporation SWPD Smaller War Plants Division TACOM Tank Automotive Command (U.S. Army) Library, Warren, Michigan UAW United Automobile Workers of America UMW United Mine Workers of America WLB War Labor Board WPB War Production Board WPRL Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan WSK William S. Knudsen Papers, NAHC ...

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