Army Service Forces: Annual Report for the Fiscal Year 1943

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Edité par US GPO, 1943

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Retired library book with usual library markings. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the Foreword: I transmit herewith the Annual Report of the Army Service Forces for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943. The fiscal year 1943 brought new problems to the Army Service Forces. In the field of procurement, the principal concern during 1942 was the construction or conversion of productive facilities to war manufacture. In 1943 productive facilities largely ceased to be a bottleneck. Deliveries of ground type munitions began to realize the full promise of American mass production. The first great difficulty in procurement was one of channeling raw materials in an orderly manner to war contractors and subcontractors. The problem of raw materials was also a problem in War Department relations to the War Production Board. The War Department's fears that the Production Requirements Plan would prove administratively unfeasible were borne out in the third quarter of 1942. In the meantime the new priority ratings for specific quantities of war goods to be acquired in a particular time period went into effect. Almost simultaneously the War Production Board announced a new scheme of materials control--the Controlled Materials Plan--and took steps to put day-to-day relations with the War Department on a systematic basis. Both agencies worked together in planning the methods for putting the Controlled Materials Plan into effect. With increasing materials shortages, the problem of production scheduling came to the fore. The most effective use of all materials was indispensable if completed articles were to be produced instead of many half-finished items. Production scheduling was therefore closely tied to materials control. Drawing the line between the two, and between the respective fields of authority of the War Production Board and the War Department, was not easy. It was done, however, and done satisfactorily. Moreover, through the Production Executive Committee set up by the War Production Board, close, continual relations between the Army Service Forces and the War Production Board on production questions has been achieved. In the fiscal year 1942 careful attention had been given to the development of adequate data on War Department requirements for munitions. These data were used in setting procurement objectives and in presenting raw materials needs to the War Production Board. In 1943 these requirements had to be further adjusted because of production limitations and consequent changes in strategic plans. 274 pages.

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• Titre: Army Service Forces: Annual Report for the Fiscal Year 1943
• Éditeur: US GPO
• Date de parution: 1943
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good
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