Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Somervell became Chief of S.O.S. last March, he revitalized Army procurement methods overnight. Soon he was bumping his head against WPB: he was dependent on WPB's raw materials and the plants it built or converted. Since WPB moved too slowly for Brehon Somervell's speedy taste, he set out to push...
Authority with Strings. Donald Nelson's grant of power had never been really enough to make him manager of the war effort. He came in after most of the production had been blueprinted, most of the nation's store of raw materials already earmarked for duty. Many of the powers a modern-day Bernard Baruch needs were spread through other agencies-Office of Defense Transportation, War Manpower Commission, Office of Price Administration, Food Control-over which he had no direct control, or even advisory powers. And the Army & Navy, retaining the right to make war contracts, could always...
...struggle to take away what power he had caught Nelson at a bad time. WPB's program was sadly out of gear. Some of the nation's bright, shiny, proud new factories would never turn a wheel, for lack of raw materials; some might even have to be torn down for scrap. This was not Nelson's fault: the Army & Navy had contributed to the shortages by prodigal waste in specifications...
Authority in Deadlock. But no one could say yet who would win the struggle. General Somervell had licked every job he ever tackled; on his record, he was a hard man to stop. But WPB's biggest job now was to allocate raw materials impartially for military and civilian needs. Well might Donald Nelson claim that no Army man should umpire a game that the Army was playing. And allocation of raw materials was a staggeringly difficult task; neither the Army nor anybody else had yet produced a plan better than...
Tuskegee's Negroes faced two problems: 1) learning to fly; 2) learning to become aggressive, when every tradition had taught them submissiveness. The raw material was good. Of these Negro cadets, 57% had had technical studies in school, the average had had three and a half years of college. Of the first 81 cadets accepted, 44 were from the South, 26 from the North, six from the Middle West, five from the Far West. They were anxious, eager, studied hard, flew hard, busted buttons bulging their chests at inspection...