Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grey, intense Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces, made headlines for two days. He warned the Senate's Mead Committee of a potentially dangerous shortage in military production. In Manhattan, he exhorted N.A.M. conventioneers (see BUSINESS) : "American industry and American workers must rededicate themselves, here and now, to an upsurge of production...
This week Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the Army Service Forces, could report on the first 109 days of invasion: the Allies had landed nearly 2,500,000 troops, 500,000 vehicles (at a rate of four a minute, day & night), 17,000,000 ship tons of munitions and supplies (more than twice the total the A.E.F. of 1917-18 had received). The secret of the prefabricated ports was the secret of the miracle of supply...
...joint miracle, wrought by many hands. The planning and overseeing of it was in large part a Washington job, by Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell's Army Service Forces and his chief planner, cool, efficient Major General Leroy Lutes. They were the wholesalers, getting the supplies from the producers, estimating how much could go to Europe (and how much to every other battlefield in the world), and delivering them on the far shore of the ocean in the quantities needed and at the time required...
...Wilson was also the man in WPB that the Army & Navy went to, in order to get things done. He absorbed some of the Army & Navy's impatience at the growing talk of peace production when the battlefronts were short of many needed items. Like Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell and others in the Army, Wilson had underestimated the strength of the national feeling that the European phase of the war is about over, that it is high time to think of peacetime readjustments...
...Lieut. General Brehon Somervell authorized the Canol project without consulting the Navy (or any other department), spent $134,000,000 on it, used up some 200,000 tons of scarce material, wasted manpower and supplies when "four tankers . . . could have carried in one trip more 100-octane gasoline, motor gasoline and fuel oil than would be produced by the entire Canol project by Jan. 1, 1945. . . all because of a disintegrated military setup under which coordination cannot be compelled...