Talk:National Production Authority

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I would love to know how the National Production Authority had the authority to ban the production of color television equipment, given the national defense mission stated in this article. I wonder what other acitivities it banned.

• It did not ban color TV. Its parent organization, the Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM), did. It had that authority because the federal law under which the the ODM was established (the Defense Production Act) permitted the government to regulate manufacturing—even to the point of shutting down production of goods and services the government felt were detrimental to or which diverted resources from national defense efforts. Rather than "wasteful" competing color TV systems, the government settled on one. - 1965Tim 01:20, 14 May 2007 (UTC)