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The story was prosaically entitled Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1944, from Navy Secretary Forrestal to the President of the U.S. More than any one thing, the report made this point: America's naval force was built and manned not by Annapolis-trained professionals but by civilian amateurs.
Citizen Forrestal, ex-Wall Street broker, took no credit away from the admirals who occupy key planning and combat jobs, the other Academy men who season the Navy and hold its most important fighting commands. But his account of how the present fleet came into being and how it is...
80,000,000 H.P. To the already well-known achievements of U.S. industry, Secretary Forrestal added some breath-taking addenda. At the end of fiscal 1944 (June 30) the Navy owned 1,108 warships, 60,191 other craft, powered by 80,000,000 horsepower; 34,000 planes; 220,000 guns...
Hailed by Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal as "of supreme importance," a new Research Board for National Security was announced this week. Its purpose: to see that there is no letdown in research on new military weapons between the disbanding of OSRD at war's end and the creation by...
Those who know the details of what Hopkins does form a small circle indeed?Generals Marshall and Arnold, Admirals King and Leahy, Cabinet Members Stimson, Forrestal and Stettinius, and, of course, the President?men not given to idle chatter. On many a problem, the fine line of just where the...