Word: planners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Businessman-Planner Beardsley Ruml: $140 billion...
...their tongues. But the Brookings Institution then went on, in a brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits and dunderheads. The distinguished list of numbskulls obviously included the Committee for Economic Development, the Department of Commerce, and Planner Ruml, as economists who either: 1) could not count straight, or 2) who had added & subtracted the wrong things...
...bodily by the C.E.D. in its plans for postwar employment and production." In effect, said Brookings, it is on this shaky basis that the C.E.D. has based its plans for jobs after the war, and its revolutionary new tax plan (TIME, Sept. 11). It is these same figures that Planner Ruml used when he predicted that "the American postwar standard of living can be 50% higher than anything the U.S. has ever known" (TIME, June...
...Confused? Almost simultaneously came the counterattack. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, sleepy-looking but shrewd Under Secretary of Commerce, stated that the Department's figures were carefully defined and "reasonably clear and simple." In effect, said Taylor, no one was confusing the figures but the Brookings Institution. Planner Ruml merely looked over his tortoise-shell spectacles, disdainfully, said he "saw no reason" to change his estimates...
...joint miracle, wrought by many hands. The planning and overseeing of it was in large part a Washington job, by Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell's Army Service Forces and his chief planner, cool, efficient Major General Leroy Lutes. They were the wholesalers, getting the supplies from the producers, estimating how much could go to Europe (and how much to every other battlefield in the world), and delivering them on the far shore of the ocean in the quantities needed and at the time required...