The primary task of the War Production Board was to ______________________.
A. decide where to build new factories for war production
B. determine how to finance the production of war equipment
C. allocate resources and coordinate production among the nation's factories as they converted from civilian to military production
D. set the wage scale that would attract workers to jobs in defense plants
Answer: C
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