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...Manhattan Project." In the War Department, the super-secret program was "Manhattan Project." It had top priority on materiél and Army specialists. But few, if any, of the 65,000 who at one time worked on materials, handled blueprints, and expedited the job, ever knew what "Manhattan Project" was. Not until this week did they know the end results of their labors. The cost was tremendous, but it was worth it. Said Harry Truman: "We have spent $2 billion on the greatest scientific gamble in history...
...point, U.S. railroads last year hauled 740 billion ton-miles of freight, more than twice the 1939 total. Passenger-miles trebled in the five years to 96 billion. The railroads had no choice. Part of this back-breaking traffic had been the 3,500,000 troops-and all the materiél needed to fight in Europe-that were shipped from East Coast ports. The railroads had done the improbable; now they must do the impossible. Miracle must now be piled on miracle. In the next ten months they must move as many troops across the U.S. as they...
...great step WPB took toward reconverting U.S. industry. Without wait ing for a formal announcement, WPB quietly put into effect its own plans for V-E day. As fast as it could, WPB began to lift the system of controls from indus try and turn loose manpower and materi als for big-scale civilian manufacture...
Self-criticism is a near-fetish in the new army. ". . . We are training under tactical regulations and with materiél that are almost wholly obsolete,'' Major General Lynch wrote in the current Infantry Journal. "There should be no hesitancy in moving at once to a radical revision. . . ." Beneath the static military crust, new tactics, weapons, strategies are in the making. At the Air Corps' experimental Wright Field are such men as Major Carl F. Greene, whose wing designs largely made possible the modern monoplane, whose new pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into...