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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1243737 Title: The Army and economic mobilization Author: R Elberton Smith Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1959. OCLC:1243737

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The Army and economic mobilization

Author:	R Elberton Smith
Publisher:	Washington, D.C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1959.
Series:	United States Army in World War II., War Department.
Edition/Format:	eBook : National government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	An analysis of the complex tasks associated with Army procurement and economic mobilization featuring the War Department₂s business relationships from prewar planning and the determination of military requirements to the settlement and liquidation of the wartime procurement effort.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Smith, R. Elberton (Ralph Elberton), 1910- Army and economic mobilization. Washington, Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1959 (OCoLC)570295374
Material Type:	Government publication, National government publication, Internet resource
Document Type:	Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	R Elberton Smith Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	1243737
Description:	xxv, 749 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
Contents:	The task and the achievement -- Prewar plans and wartime organization -- Background of interwar planning -- War Department procurement planning -- Industrial mobilization planning -- Organization for war -- Determination of Army requirements -- Army requirement programs: World War I to Pearl Harbor -- Army requirement programs: Pearl Harbor to war's end -- The methodology of Army requirements determination -- Army purchasing problems and policies -- Survey of Army purchasing: 1940 to 1945 -- Major issues in contract placement -- General policies in contract placement and clearance -- The cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract -- Pricing in fixed-price contracts -- Multiple-contract pricing review: the company pricing program -- Contract renegotiation: origins and basic procedures -- Renegotiation: principles and policy -- The Army and OPA Price Control -- The Army and small business -- Expansion of facilities for the Army -- General aspects of facilities expansion -- Private industrial expansion under tax amortization -- Government financed and owned industrial facilities -- Production and material controls -- Establishment of the Priorities System -- Priorities: problems in application and operation -- Material controls in transition -- The controlled materials plan -- Other measures for control and conservation of materials -- Contract termination and settlement -- Contract termination: background and preparations -- Termination and settlement procedure -- Contract settlement in operation -- Epilogue -- The summing up.
Series Title:	United States Army in World War II., War Department.
Responsibility:	by R. Elberton Smith.

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An analysis of the complex tasks associated with Army procurement and economic mobilization featuring the War Department₂s business relationships from prewar planning and the determination of military requirements to the settlement and liquidation of the wartime procurement effort.

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