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Solution by Battle. Before Donald Nelson even knew he was in a fight, he had nearly lost it. He sent some of his top men over to the War Department as civilian advisers, to mesh WPB's production program with Army procurement. They did not stay civilians long. Instead of molding Army policy, Nelson's men were molded into well-tailored Army uniforms. General Somervell put the good men to work, boxed off the bad ones. In a matter of weeks, he was head man of production and Nelson had a row of empty desks...
...cotton, unlike industry, these worlds are not so very different from each other. CCC men believe that win-the-war policy ought to mesh as closely as possible with win-the-peace policy. For the present, the job is to see that no Good Neighbor sags in its economic joints through loss of its export markets to war. Afterwards, the grand strategy will look something like this...
...WPBoss Donald Nelson finally announced the establishment of 24 industry committees, designed to make each industry's gears mesh with the war effort, picked 24 industry chiefs. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch and many other experts had urged this for nearly two years...
...enough should arrive in time, General Hutton might well cut across into Thailand after the Jap. But it was more easily said than done, even with a big force. Thailand and Burma have long been uppity neighbors. Their railroad and highway systems do not mesh, and the border country is mountainous, wild and miasmic in the low places. Yet Germany in Greece and Japan in Malaya have shown that an army with the will and equipment can traverse any kind of country, fighting as it goes. Up-to-snuff military men like General Hutton must have profited from their examples...
General Hershey told the committee that it will be necessary to "invade homes quite considerably." The new dragnet will have a smaller mesh. Commenting on past abuses of deferment privileges, General Hershey remarked dryly: "I must confess that we have found a great number of men who have assumed new and heavy responsibilities at home...