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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, Mr. Roosevelt did not put his theory into practice until 1939. The year before, the Bureau had 45 employes, spent $196,000. In 1939 Harold Smith (he had been Michigan's budget director since 1937) took over, and began to expand...
...steel to cartridges for the hungry gullets of tommy guns, Brownings, Chicago pianos and automatic cannon. The researchers had plenty of troubles. One of the worst was the shortage of such alloying elements as nickel, chromium, tung sten and molybdenum. But eventually they developed a noncritical steel which would expand on firing to seal the breech, then contract quickly enough to permit ejection of the empty case...
...planning committee. Nathan was one of the few New Dealers who demanded billions of dollars for the war effort when the services couldn't see how they could use millions. Profiting by the lessons of the war, he was one who fought vigorously to expand the nation's raw material supply when the services went hog-wild in building plants to produce munitions for which they couldn't get the raw materials. The services had overruled Nathan and the men who stood with him. They had had their way with each successive, fumbling war board, right down...
...Gillette of a heavily burdened Air Force officer: "The command of which he was adjutant was scattered in three service commands. His headquarters received distribution direct from the Adjutant General's Office and from each of these three service command headquarters . . . each felt a duty to interpret . . . and expand [each] document before forwarding. As a result he frequently received several hundred copies of directives requiring him to do something four different ways...
...General Electric Co. is planning to pour some $10 million into new Brazilian electrical manufacturing plants. But I.G.E.'s president, able, 64-year-old Clark Haynes Minor, who knows the world as well as many a U.S. businessman knows his own country, claims that the new plants will expand, not retard, I.G.E.'s flow of exports from the U.S. to Brazil...