Excerpt from The Army and Industrial Manpower Statutory recognition of the War Department's new role and the basis for its subsequent activities in the field of industrial mobilization were given in the National Defense Act of 1920, which charged the Assistant Secretary of War with supervision of the procurement of all military supplies and Other business of the War Department pertaining thereto and the assurance of adequate provision for mobilization of materiel and indusrrial organiza tions essential to wartime needs. 2 In the field of industrial mobilization, the authority vested in the Assistant Secretary was sweeping and potentially enormous, for his peacetime planning responsibilities extended beyond the confines of the War Department almost as far as he chose to go. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.