McNair Paper 50, Contents

Institute for National Strategic Studies

McNair Paper Number 50, Contents, August 1996

Mobilizing U.S. Industry in World War II

by

Alan L. Gropman

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. MOBILIZATION ACTIVITIES BEFORE PEARL HARBOR DAY

3. EDUCATION FOR MOBILIZATION

4. INTERWAR PLANNING FOR INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION

5. MOBILIZING FOR WAR: 1939 TO 1941

6. THE WAR PRODUCTION BOARD

7. THE CONTROLLED MATERIALS PLAN

8. THE OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION AND RECONVERSION

9. U.S. PRODUCTION IN WORLD WAR II

10. BALANCING MILITARY AND CIVILIAN NEEDS

11. OVERCOMING RAW MATERIAL SCARCITIES

12. MARITIME CONSTRUCTION

13. PEOPLE MOBILIZATION: "Rosie the Riveter"

14. CONCLUSIONS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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