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...decision. In the old, bobbling, bungling days of NDAC, OPM and SPAB, the Army, holding tightly and jealously to its power to sign war contracts, set the pattern of U.S. production by mere force of letting the contracts as the Army saw fit. The defense agencies played around with raw materials, plant conversion and subcontracting-all unsuccessfully. Manufacturers got used to thinking of the Army as the source of orders, of OPM as a source of questionnaires...
...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...
...engaged in "air operations overseas." When his bomber was forced down over the Dutch coast Mahn and two others of the crew of four managed to climb aboard their raft. That night one man died, and the other a few days later. Sustained only by rain water and raw fish, Mahn managed to survive the bitter cold of the North Sea with only severely frozen feet, until picked up by a British torpedo boat...
...Washington, officials admitted that many war plants now under construction will not turn a wheel for months after they are completed, at best will run well below capacity. Some will stand idle for the duration. Donald Nelson said frankly that there are not enough raw materials to keep all the plants already built running full tilt, let alone all the new ones. In fact, Robert Nathan, chief of Nelson's Planning Board, believes that some of the half-finished structures should be torn down to recover the materials that were put in them, put them to use in more...
...point was that R.A.F. minelayers* and United Nations submarines had been able to disturb important German shipping routes. In addition to draining raw materials from Sweden and Finland, Germany uses the sprawling, landlocked Baltic as a highway for transporting troops and supplies to the Leningrad area, the Finnish front and northernmost Norway...