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...never known a time like this. It wanted advice; it wanted reassurance. This week, from a man well qualified to give them, the U.S. got both. The reassuring adviser, who bears the imposing title of Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, was greying, 55-year-old Frederick Moore Vinson. In a solid and detailed 71-page report to the President and Congress, dealing primarily in economic facts, he said: "While we plan and produce for the destruction of Japan ... we must work toward transition, the kind of well-timed transition that will prevent depression from coming...
This task, said Mobilizer Vinson, was of "sobering magnitude" and "interminate length." But Americans could do it, because it was an American kind of job: "Manufacturers have cleared their plants before; they have tooled, retooled, and set up assembly lines many times...
...military terms, reconversion meant redeployment. The U.S. had to swing hundreds of thousands of fighting men, with mountains of equipment, from the finished victory in Europe to the finishing blow against Japan. Fred Vinson listed some of the mountainous details...
...railroads, the central link in redeploying troops to the Pacific, the passenger jam now promises to be 10% worse than the record jam of 1944. Said Vinson: "The public is expected to refrain from unnecessary travel." That was the picture, as Fred Vinson saw it, until V-J day. In the very week that he made his report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said...
...Smith, he went under in the Hoover landslide. But two years later he was back. He worked hard, carried the tax ball for the Ways & Means Committee, became known and famed as a fiscal expert. In 1937, after the Supreme Court had thrown out the Guffey Coal Act, Vinson studied the decision, wrote a new bill, made it stand...