The Army and Economic Mobilization (United States Army in World War II: The War Department, Volume 7)

xxv, 749 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 63 tables, 4 charts, 11 illustrations, bibliographical note, glossaries, and index. "This work traces the foundation of the achievement [of overwhelming superiority in the materiel of war] in the nation's experience of World War I and the planning for economic mobilization with which the War Department was charged in the period between the two wars. It describes, for each of the major substantive areas of economic mobilization, the nation's transition from a peacetime status through the eighteen-month 'defense period' to the achievement of a full-fledged war economy (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 14-16). Includes discussion of the economics of war, production feasibility, contract placement problems, wartime pricing problems, financing of facilities, procurement planning, nationwide industrial mobilization, contract renegotiation, the Controlled Materials Plan, etc.