The Combined Raw Materials Board was a temporary World War II government agency that allocated the combined economic resources of the United States and Britain.
It was set up by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill on January 26, 1942.
Rosen finds that the Board concentrated on difficult but non-controversial commodity problems.
As the war ended its commodity committees were enlarged to include representatives of other nations.
[3] Roosevelt and Churchill set the Board's mission as: The leaders were William L. Batt from the U.S. and Sir Clive Baillieu (both in Washington) and Lord Beaverbrook in London.