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...snarled results were as much Army's fault as OPM's. Old-fashioned military purchasing methods were geared to buy a few tin hats from a few munitions makers, not to build a total-war arsenal from a whole economy converted to war. And both OPM and Army were under a great handicap: nobody knew how many weapons the U.S. would need or where it would get the raw materials to build them, or even what wars the U.S. was going to fight-if any. The U.S. had no war management, either military or civilian...
...back as last October the Department of Agriculture had warned of the present storage shortage; few heeded until Pearl Harbor made sober farmers realize that foreign markets were gone. Then it was too late for many to get nails, tin and lumber for sheds. Commodity Credit Corp., with WPB priorities, let contracts for 60,000 prefabricated wood and metal bins to be sold to farmers, enough to hold 110,000,000 bushels of wheat. But the contractors fell behind schedule...
...Front. The Trans-Siberian railroad has been double-tracked all the way to Vladivostok, but is extremely vulnerable. If it were cut, the chief cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-would be isolated. Further north two new lines are being rushed. Biggest industrial enterprise in the Far East is the Chapcherginsk Tin Combinat, which produces 65% of all Soviet tin. No. 1 industrial center is Komsomolsk, where the Amur Steel Works turn out more than 750,000 tons of finished steel products per year...
...Along with tanks and planes, the U.S. has sent Russia 10,000 Ford trucks, 500,000 rolls of adhesive tape, 100 medical books, tin, wheat, flour, butter, steel, aviation gasoline, machine tools and machinery to drill oil wells, laundry and toilet soap, sulfa drugs...
...Dame of the British Empire. His father was a Cabinet minister. After Eton young Lyttelton went to Cambridge. He married Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of the tenth Duke of Leeds. As an Empire businessman trained in London's City, Captain Lyttelton fathered the world tin cartel, became managing director of giant British Metal Corp...