U.S.A. AND NEXT WAR
The War Department's graph for mobilisation of American industry to meet the requirements of the next war, should the United States become involved, is drawn to a £2,000,000,000-a----year scale. Colonel Charles T. Harris, the Department's planning division head, told this to the metropolitan section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York, reports the "Christian Science Monitor." The specifications include a curb on profiteers beyond the guarantee to industry of a "modest fair profit," Colonel Harris said, through industrial controls on. price-fixing, assigning of priorities, commandeering, requisitioning, licensing of industries, and conservation of necessary materials. The Department survey has charted the war tasks of 12,000 manufacturing establishments out of the total of 20,000 already studied, Colonel Harris added
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 11
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124U.S.A. AND NEXT WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 11
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