David Weintraub was an official of the government of the United States

United States

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. In the mid-1930s he headed the New Deal

New Deal

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 Works Project Administration's National Research Project. In the 1940s Weintraub moved to the United States Department of State, becoming head of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations. He joined the professional staff of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

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 (UNRRA) and United Nations

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 Division of Economic Stability and Development.

In later years Weintraub was Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago

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Industrial Development Corporation.

Select publications

• National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques. By David Weintraub and Harold L. Posner. Published 1937.
• Unemployment and Increasing Productivity. By David Weintraub and Harold L. Posner. Published 1937.
• Effects of Current and Prospective Technological Developments Upon Capital Formation. By David Weintraub. Published 1939.
• Technology Employment and Output Per Man in Petroleum and Natural-Gas Production. By Weintraub, David; Kiessling, O.E.; Rogers, H.O; Finch, John W. Published 1939.
• Incentives to Foreign Investors in Trinidad and Tobago. By David Weintraub. Published 1959.