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Foreword |
iii |
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Preface |
vii |
| Chapter |
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Page |
| Part 1. Prelude to War |
| I. |
Facing the Failure of Neutrality |
5 |
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The Incubation of World Conflict |
5 |
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Limited Preparedness |
10 |
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Strengthening Administrative Foundations |
14 |
| II. |
Preparing for Defense |
17 |
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The Nazis Move Westward |
20 |
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Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense |
21 |
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Issues in Getting Production Under Way |
25 |
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Emergency Organization for External Affairs |
31 |
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Peacetime Selective Service |
35 |
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The Cumulation of Events |
38 |
| III. |
Laying Administrative Foundations |
43 |
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Lend-Lease Enacted |
44 |
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Agencies Evolving from the Advisory Commission |
50 |
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Growing Pains of the Production Program |
60 |
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Broadening of Economic Defense |
63 |
| IV. |
Rounding Out Defense Organization |
71 |
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Centering Responsibility for Priorities |
73 |
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Speeding the Production Tempo |
80 |
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Further Steps in Economic Defense Organization |
84 |
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Beginnings of Information Coordination |
89 |
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The State of Affairs on December 7, 1941 |
91 |
| Part 2. Defensive War |
| V. |
Accelerating Production |
103 |
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Immediate Administrative Adjustments |
104 |
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Transition to War Production Board |
109 |
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The Impact of Unlimited Procurement |
112 |
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Reorganization of War Production Board |
120 |
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Operating Policies of WPB |
125 |
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The Army and the Economy |
129 |
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Allied Cooperation |
131 |
| VI. |
Transporting the Goods |
135 |
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Shipbuilding |
135 |
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Allocating Shipping Space |
143 |
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Domestic Transportation |
155 |
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General Considerations |
170 |
| VII. |
Mobilizing Labor |
173 |
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Early Labor Supply Organization |
176 |
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Creation of the War Manpower Commission |
182 |
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Evolution of the War Manpower Commission, May-November, 1942 |
184 |
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Adjustment of Industrial Disputes |
190 |
| VIII. |
Informing the Public |
203 |
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Censorship |
206 |
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Domestic Information Agencies and the War |
210 |
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Foreign Information |
217 |
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Establishment of OWI |
220 |
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OWI as a Coordinating Agency |
23 |
| IX. |
Fighting Inflation |
235 |
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Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 |
239 |
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Formulation of Stabilization Policy |
248 |
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Seven-Point Anti-inflation Program |
253 |
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Stabilization Act of 1942 |
265 |
| Part 3. Full Tide of War |
| X. |
Regulating the Flow of Materials |
279 |
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Proposals for Military Control |
280 |
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War Production Czars |
281 |
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Comprehensive and Integrated Controls |
298 |
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Reorganization of WPB |
304 |
| XI. |
Food for War |
321 |
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Administrative Developments Prior to December 1942 |
326 |
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Operations Under the Food Order of December 5, 1942 |
337 |
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Control of Distribution |
358 |
| XII. |
Coordinating the War Agencies |
371 |
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Policing the Battle for Resources |
374 |
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Managing the Anti-inflation Program |
382 |
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Toward More Inclusive Overhead Management |
391 |
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The Office of War Mobilization |
397 |
| XIII. |
Reorganizing the International Agencies |
403 |
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War and the Traditional Machinery of Foreign Relations |
406 |
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Establishment of OFRRO |
409 |
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Coordination by the Department of State |
411 |
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Friction Between BEW and RFC |
421 |
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Reorganization |
425 |
| XIV. |
Allocating Labor Supply |
429 |
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Emergence of a Labor Allocation System |
431 |
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Selective Service Policy and National Service |
445 |
| XV. |
Preparing for Peace |
461 |
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Early Planning |
463 |
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Planning World Peace |
467 |
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Demobilization--the Human Side |
469 |
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Demobilization--the Financial Responsibility of Government |
473 |
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Planning the Reconversion of Industry |
482 |
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Lifting Controls |
491 |
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The Fight Against Inflation |
492 |
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Reconversion and Demobilization of the Executive Establishment |
498 |
| XVI. |
Assaying the Record |
503 |
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Development of Policy |
506 |
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Programming for War |
511 |
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Execution of the Program |
515 |
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| APPENDICES |
| I. |
The War Agencies of the Executive Branch
of the Federal Government |
521 |
| II. |
List of Charts |
537 |
| III. |
List of Abbreviations |
539 |
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| Index |
541 |