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...Office of Civilian Requirements, is sweating his small staff twelve hours a day. Their first task: to find out what is the bedrock level of U.S. civilian needs. This is a Gargantuan job. In peacetime, 300,000 consumer articles were turned out by U.S. factories. In wartime, OCR Boss Whiteside thinks bedrock may be a mere fraction of these, some 1,500 to 2,000 articles. Soon OCR Boss Whiteside will have his list, will know for the first time what items are needed, what items are short...
There were a lot more: BAE, BLS, DPI, ECC, EHFA, EIB, FCIC, FDA, NIC, NPPC, OADR, OGF, OCR, OLLA, OSRD, SCS, SSB, SSS, USSS, USES, USIS. Hardly a man was now alive who knows or needs to know most of them. If he did, he could not find them. They were moving: REA was on its way to St. Louis, one of 14 peacetime bureaus which had moved or were moving to make more Washington room for war agencies. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is now in Philadelphia, the Patent Office in Richmond. To Kansas City will soon...