Word: taubes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's plan was born late in 1943, when Lauchlin Currie, then acting deputy administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration, sat down to discuss it with FEA's electric, little, British-born chief engineer, Alex Taub. Taub had just completed a ten-year industrialization plan for Brazil. Said Currie: "China's alive. Why not do one for China...
Canvass of Industry. Taub and his FEA engineers went to work, made their first stop in the front office of U.S. industry. To one leading company in each of 52 basic industries, they posed this question: how much would it cost to put an economically feasible unit of your industry in China, capable of affecting China's economy nationally...
Broadly classified, the program was broken down by Taub's engineers into six sections...
Backbone of Steel. Under Taub's plan, China's industrialization program is fixed to her blueprinted steel units. As planned, they will ultimately produce about 2½% to 3% of the U.S. 1940 production of 67 million tons. All other industries are similarly designed to turn out about 2½% of the production of their U.S. models...
...meeting changed Toledoans' minds. Head of the Washington delegation was Alex Taub, a former Chevrolet and Vauxhall (British G.M.) production engineer who-experting for OPM and SPAB-has been in the front lines of Washington groups fighting for more subcontracting. With Taub was a group of Army men headed by Major J. B. Maderis of the War Department's contracts distribution branch. Both Taub and Major Maderis gave the Toledo plan their blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities...