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First there was able, boot-tough Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces. With ever more & more men to feed, General Somervell demanded more & more food. The Army, which already feeds part of the French and Italian armies, prisoners of war, etc., recently added 300,000 liberated Philippine Scouts to its chow line. General Somervell was out for all he needed, and he needed...
Designed to furnish oil to U.S. troops in Alaska, it had never achieved much stature except in Lieut. General Brehon Somervell's Army Service Forces. The Truman Committee had called the $134,000,000 collection of oil wells, refinery and pipeline "inexcusable": long before it was completed, Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes had said it should be junked...
...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...
They heard this straight from the mouth of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, hard-bitten boss of the Army Service Forces, who gravely noted that current production of munitions is lagging behind consumption (see U.S. AT WAR). There was worse to come. Said he: "Within the past 90 days we have had to increase our estimate of the production ... to fight Japan after Germany is defeated. . . . It will cost us $71 billion a year." This was the first official word to U.S. business that the cutbacks in war production after V-E day have shrunk from the 40% which...
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...