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...alert nation, militarily and industrially prepared against a national emergency, has an excellent chance of avoiding such an emergency." With these words of dubious comfort, the Munitions Board last week issued a booklet entitled Military Procurement, a comprehensive pocket guide to war planning by U.S. industry...
...booklet illustrates the Defense Department's new "single-procurement" system (in which one branch of the service will do all the buying for all three branches in certain specified items), gives the address and telephone number of every procurement office in the country. No mere blueprint, it tells manufacturers what they should do-now-to avoid getting caught with their overalls down. With a reminder of items that were short in World War II (paper, asbestos, industrial diamonds, etc.), it lists what would be needed first in another war: bearings, generators, rubber-working machinery...
...booklet is a catechism of preparedness which the board wants every manufacturer to answer, at least to his own satisfaction. It covers everything from contract negotiations to plans for the "emergency housing for the new workers you'll need." Sample questions: "What measures could you take to protect your personnel during work hours in an air attack? What provisions have been made to detect the existence of subversive elements on your payroll...
...results were released last week in a 75-page booklet, The Market for United Kingdom Consumer Goods in the United States...
Today a familiar little volume makes its annual vernal visit to Cambridge. The catalogue of courses was, in the past, a sometimes fascinating, sometimes forbidding, but always necessary booklet. This year, as an added attraction, the Faculty has decked it out in a shiny new spring outfit. First of all, course numberings have been entirely rearranged in order to get rid of the hodgepodge of numerals, letters, and combinations of the two that cluttered up all previous listings. The new system is a model of simplicity: as the numbers go higher, the courses become more advanced. Most...