Armed Forces, U.S.
all-outers as counterweight to
contracting authority and
feasibility study and
opposition to War Production Board
production requirements and
relations with War Production Board
super-priorities committee and
USSR and, objection to military aid to
Army, U.S.
division activation schedule
manpower needs of
production planning and
requirements estimates of
See also War Department
Army Air Force
Army and Navy Munitions Board (ANMB)
Office of Production Management and
raw materials estimates
Army division goals
Army Industrial Staff College
Army reorganization
branch chiefs’reaction to
impact on procurement
implementing instructions
Army Reorganization Committee
Army Service Forces (ASF)
Army strength estimate
Army Supply Program
Arnold, Henry H.
“arsenal for democracy,”
Aurand, Henry
automobile industry
B
Baruch, Bernard
Batt, W. L.
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
Belcher, Donald R.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Biggers, John
Blaisdell, Thomas
Brest invasion
Brigante, John
Britain. See Great Britain
British Chiefs of Staff
British gold reserves
British staff system
Brooke, Alan
Budd, Ralph
Bundy, McGeorge
Bureau of Research and Statistics
Burns, James
business community
lessons drawn from World War I,
price controls and
resistance to production changes
business cycles
business taxes and depreciation
Byrnes, James
C
Canada
consumer consumption in
defense expenditures
war outlays in
Casablanca Conference (1943)
myths concerning discussion at
Center for Military History
Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations (Watson)
Churchill, Winston
in planning for European invasion
Tobruk and
Cicero
Civil War mobilization level
Clark, Mark
Clay, Lucius
Clayton, Will
CMP. See Controlled Materials Plan
combat ship construction
Combined Production and Resources Board
consolidated balance sheet
construction
in feasibility study
as gross national product percentage
military
moratorium on new
in Victory Program analysis
write-off of plant construction costs
consumer outlays
consumer production and consumption
conversion of, to military production
international
per capita
Victory Program and
during war years
consumer spending
contracting authority
Controlled Materials Plan (CMP)
copper supplies
Coy, Wayne
Crete campaign
cross-Channel invasion, proposed (1942 and 1943)
Churchill reaction to
debate concerning
Marshall and
Operation Bolero and
Operation Roundup and
Roosevelt as advocate for
See also European invasion
D
Danford, Robert M.
Davis, Chester C.
debt market
debt monetization
defense expenditures
international
Victory Program and
See also production requirement estimates
Defense Plant Corporation
Dieppe raid
Dill, John
division activation schedule
Douglas, William O.
durable goods
E
Eberstadt, Ferdinand
Eccles, Marriner S.
economics
as basis of major-state war
in histories of war
in strategic planning
in World War II,
economy, U.S.
dollars in expressing
Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and study of
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Elliot, Harriet
Embick, Stanley
Emmerich, Henry
European invasion
Churchill on timing of
divisions required for
feasibility study impact on
Marshall on timing of
pre-invasion requirements
Roosevelt on timing of
strategic planning for
timing of
See also cross-Channel invasion
F
feasibility. See production feasibility
feasibility board
Federal Reserve Bulletins
Federal Reserve System
bond interest rates and
in debt monetization
member banks’role in
in monetary base adjustment
in war financing
financial revolution
impact on economic basis of war
World War II and
Forrestal, James F.
France
in allied strategic planning
mobilization levels during Napoleonic Wars
mobilization levels during World War I
in Wedemeyer’s Victory Plan
See also cross-Channel invasion
Frankfurter, Felix
Friedman, Milton
G
Germany
consumer consumption in
defense expenditures
economic policies of
hyperinflation in
offensive against
plan for defeat of
in war financing
war outlays in
war reserves of
Gerow, Leonard T.
Ginsberg, David
Great Britain
in American strategic planning
consumer consumption in
cross-Channel invasion plans and
defense expenditures
financial crisis in
financial revolution in
Napoleonic Wars and
production collaboration with
war plans and
Great Depression
Green Books
Gross National Product (GNP)
defined
in feasibility study
as feasibility tool
war outlays as percentage of
Guyer, Lawrence
H
Harrison, William H.
Harrison, William K., Jr.
Henderson, Leon
Hillman, Sidney
Hindenburg, Paul von
Hinrichs (labor expert)
Hopkins, Harry
Hull, Cordell
hyperinflation
I
income accounting. See national income and product accounts
industrial facilities
defined
limitations in
in production feasibility
Somervell comments on
write-off of construction costs
Industrial Mobilization Plan (IMP)
Industrial Revoluti
on
inflation rate
“The Inflationary Gap” (Keynes)
J
Japan
defense expenditures
economic policies of
scrap metal shipments to
war plans and
Joint Board
Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS)
Casablanca Conference and
feasibility study and
on Operation Gymnast
on Pacific operations
joint requirements ledger
Joint Strategic Survey Committee (JSSC)
Jones, Homer
Jones, Jesse
Julius Caesar
K
Kaiser, Henry
Keynes, John Maynard
King, Ernest
King, Gregory
Kirkpatrick, Charles
Knowlson, James
Knox, William F.
Knudsen, William S.
Kuznets, Simon
background of
economic estimates and
establishment mistrust of
on feasibility concept
feasibility study and
feasibility study text
on German war production
importance of work of
national income accounting and
production estimates and
reply to Somervell’s comments on study
requirement estimates and
supreme war production council and
on War Production Board Planning Committee
L
labor shortage
labor supply
in production feasibility
war employment
(Appendix 4)
landing craft production
Leahy, William D.
Lend-Lease program
Lindbergh, Charles
Lloyd George, David
logistics, in histories of war
Lubin, Isador
M
machine tool requirements
manpower goals, Army
Maritime Commission
maritime transport
Marshall, George C.
Army reorganization and
on Brest invasion
on cross-Channel invasion
feasibility study and
on Operation Bolero
on Operation Torch
on Pacific operations
on production estimates
second front and
timing of European invasion and
troop basis estimates and
Matloff, Maurice
May, Stacy
in Bureau of Research and Statistics
consolidated balance sheet and
establishment mistrust of
motivation for
Nathan on
national income accounts and
Office of Production Management and
on pacifism
production reports of
production requirements and
supreme war production council and
Victory Program and
War Production Board and
May Papers
McCloy, John
McNair, Leslie
McNarney, Joseph
McNutt, Paul V.
Meiklejohn, Norman J.
merchant ship construction
Mexican War mobilization level
military procurement
Army reorganization and
contracting authority and
feasibility study and
justification for service control of
naval
production efficiency and
production schedules and
War Production Board and
Miller, Adolph C.
Millett, John
mobilization levels
in American wars
prior to French Revolution
Wedemeyer’s estimates on
World War I,
World War II,
Molotov, Vyacheslav
monetary contraction
monetary expansion
monetary policy
debt monetization
Treasury Bills and
in war financing
monetizing the debt
Monnet, Jean
Moore, R. C.
Morton, Louis
Moscow Protocol
Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, Earl
munitions barons
munitions program. See Victory Program
“must items”
feasibility and
Roosevelt on
N
Napoleonic Wars
Nathan, Robert
on aluminum production
on difficulties in acquiring production estimates
economic estimates of
feasibility board and
feasibility study and
importance of work of
on industrial facilities
on Monnet
“must items” and
on National Defense Advisory Commission co-chairs
on Nelson
personality of
Planning Committee Document No.
production goals and
on raw material shortages
Somervell and
statistical revolution and
on steel production
supreme war production council and
as War Production Board Planning Committee head
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Defense Advisory Commission (NDAC)
assessment of
effectiveness of
organization of
National Income, 1929–32 (report)
National Income, 1929–35 (report)
national income and product accounts
in conversion to military production decision
impact on business cycles
political use of
rearmament program impact on
substitution of gross national product for
Victory Program and
national income estimates
naval procurement
Navy, U.S.
production planning and
requirements estimates of
war plans and
Navy shipbuilding program
NDAC. See National Defense Advisory Commission
Nelson, Donald M.
on consolidated statement
feasibility board and
feasibility study and
on military procurement and contracting authority
on munitions industry
personality of
on Planning Committee mission
plant construction costs and
production estimates and
requirement revisions and
Somervell and
super-priorities committee and
as Supply Priorities and Allocations Board head
supreme production council and
as War Production Board head
Normandy invasion
North American Company
Norway campaign
O
Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
in agency proliferation
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply (OPACS)
Office of Production Management (OPM)
assessment of
in conversion of civilian industries
creation of
mission of
organization of
replacement of
Office of Production Management Planning Committee
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (OWMR)
OPA. See Office of Price Administration
OPACS. See Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply
Operation Bolero
Operation Gymnast
Operation Husky
Operation Jupiter
Operation Roundup
Operation Sledgehammer
Operation Torch
OPM. See Office of Production Management
“Organization for Production Control in World War II” (Yoshpe)
OWMR. See Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
P
Pacific theater
parachute production
Patterson, Robert P.
“Paying for the War” (Keynes)
Pearl Harbor attack
Pearson, Drew
Peloponnesian War
Petty, William
Plan Dog
Plan Orange
Plan Rainbow-5
Planning Committee Document No.
Planning Committee Document No.
Planning Committee Document No.
Planning Committee of War Production Board
disbanding of
feasibility study and
impact of
role in Victory Program
scope of activities
See also War Production Board
price controls
price stabilization
priorities committee, super
priority rating system
private consumption
production capacity
business resistance to expansion of
dollars and national income figures in expressing
estimates on
inadequacy of
military control of procurement and
production collaboration
production feasibility
approaches to
economic statistics in
goals and balances
importance of
industrial facilities in
labor supply in
margin of error in
minimum goals in
“must items” and
national income accounts in determining
raw materials in
realistic and ideal maximum criteria of
variants in
production feasibility board
production feasibility study
approaches to
Army disregard of
assumptions of
criticism of
data sets used in
defense of
first study
gross national product and
impact on invasion timing
industrial facilities and
Joint Chiefs of Staff decision concerning
labor supply and
margin of error in
maximum productive effort and
military production and
military response to
minutes of meeting on
raw materials and
recommendations of
resistance to
results of
Somervell’s comments on
text of
troop reduction as result of
production goals
for 1942
for 1943,
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