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...Target, No Need. There were main and secondary problems of person nel, training, procurement. Compared to the problems of peace, the problems of war were simple. How big a fleet? There was no yardstick, such as a comparable foreign navy, by which to determine a peacetime U.S. Navy's size. There was no comparable foreign navy. There was no specific target. There was no apparent, imminent need...
...next two days the President worked hard and long. Decisions came out: a shakedown in the State Department, a swift end to Lend-Lease, authority for the War Labor Board to relax wage controls (Little Steel was now a broken yardstick...
...yardstick of 1½ tons of steel per automobile was the best measure of production that WPB had to work with. But a sudden boost in military demand for steel would knock the automobile production schedule galley-west. Contrariwise, sharp and not wholly unexpected cuts in military needs later this year would mean more steel for automobiles...
...compete with big business. Biddle made it clear that any disposal policy should favor small business. Example: a "number of small business interests bidding for a plant that could be broken up might well be favored over a single rival whose bid might even produce more cash." The yardstick in all cases, said he, should be the number of jobs-and competition -created, not the amount of cash paid to the Government...
...objection to a statement showing the aggregate salaries of the directors and officers. . . If it went a step further and showed the percentage relation of the total salaries to total sales or total not profits, the stockholders might have some yardstick to measure the efficiency and economy of the company's administration...