Word: cutback
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...come for the Nazis in 1944. But Franklin Roosevelt was being deliberately pessimistic. His request for $100 billion assumed that Hitler would still be fighting in full fury at the budget's end in June 1945. Victory sooner might possibly mean a 30 to 40, or even 50% cutback in war production. This was what war planners guessed-but no one knew for certain...
...Griffith and his great cameraman Billy Bitzer, here shown working with Henry B. Walthall in The Escape, were the Founding Fathers of cinematic art. They discovered the closeup, the cutback, the truck shot (camera moving forward or backward), the fadeout, the fuzz-focused heroine's head which, esthetically, is Hollywood's chief inheritance from them. Some of their action sequences in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), together with many by their brilliant, neglected contemporary, Thomas Ince, have seldom been equaled, never surpassed...
...then, they had seen plants standing idle. So did civilians who have passed enormous army dumps jammed wheel to wheel with trucks, have seen massed fields of hundreds of tanks. Army Ordnance itself has even complained of a big tank surplus at Chester, Pa. Statisticians recalled further that the cutback of a "few facilities" totaled around...
Says Bob Patterson: "The idea that the cutback in production is the result of an abundance of certain weapons is wholly false. We probably never will have an abundance because of the heavy drain of battle attrition...
...cutback is absolutely necessary if the U.S. is to produce anything like the $87 billions worth of military goods which is the 1943 military goal. But the cutback will also be rendered difficult given the huge civilian demand. Joseph L. Weiner in the Office of Civilian Supply may labor prodigiously to get a balance of civilian output through drastic allocation of raw materials and through a "concentration" of civilian industries into the hands of a few firms. But how men and women are to be jarred out of the service industries with civilians able to pay good cash for services...