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Said Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell: "It is easy to say that the 50 trucks or the 200 engines which could not be produced against schedule this month can be made up next month, but a battlefield lost on Tuesday is difficult to regain on Wednesday...
Since overall military strategy is based on a production timetable which was set to increase month by month for the next six months, the U.S. began to see what Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell meant when he called the May production drop "serious" (TIME, July...
...production of matériel for the Army Ground Forces was below expectations, but not necessarily alarming-3½% below April, 5½% below the goals (TIME, June 28). Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, commanding the Army Service Forces, called this drop "serious." But indications are definite this week that war production in June was no better than...
...Machine-gun assemblers get $4,700 to $8,740 a year. (Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, in charge of U.S. Army supply, gets $8,500. U.S. soldiers and sailors, at $50 a month, must take down and assemble machine guns, blindfolded.) Moralized Mr. Engel: "On the other hand, we attempt to freeze a half-million coal miners at wage rates of $1,200 to $1,700 a year...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army Services of Supply, asked this question of himself, of the upturned faces at the opening session in New York of the Chamber of Commerce convention, and of the nation. Then he gave part of the answer...