1 EO 8807, 28 Jun 41.
2 This story is summarized in James P. Baxter, Scientists Against Time (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1946), pp. 76-82, 248-51.
3 Ibid., Ch. XV.
4 Ibid., Chs. XX-XXIII.
5 Annual Rpt of ASF, 1945, Ch. I; Henry D. Smyth, Atomic Energy for Miliiary Purposes (Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1946).
6 Irvin Stewart, Organizing Scientific Research for War (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1948), p. 323.
7 Ibid., p. 154.
8 Ibid., p. 325.
9 Ltr, Styer to Bush, 1 May 42, Hq ASF, CofS.
10 EO 9280, 5 Dec 42.
11 EO 9322, 26 Mar 43.
12 For a concise, general account of the War Food Administration, see "Food for War" in The United States at War: Development and Administration of the War Program by the Federal Government, prepared under the auspices of the Committee on Records of War Administration by the War Records Section, Bureau of the Budget (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946), p. 321. (Hereafter cited as The United States at War.)
13 Ltr, Ickes to Stimson, 12 Aug 41, Hq ASF, Petroleum.
14 EO 9276, 2 Dec 42.
15 Ltr, Ickes to Stimson, 4 May 42, Hq ASF, Petroleum.
16 Ltr, Stimson to Ickes, 3 Feb 43, Hq ASF, Petroleum
17 EO 9246, 17 Sep 42.
18 Annual Rpt of ASF, 1944, p. 146; 1945, pp. 198-99.
19 This section is based on the annual reports of the ASF together with three statements which were especially prepared by the Industrial Personnel Division pf the ASE These are filed in OCMH. See also Jonathan Grossman Industrial Manpower Problems and Policies of the War Department, a volume in preparation for the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II.
20 EO 9139, 18 Apr 42.
21 EO 9017, 12 Jan 42.
22 John Ohly, War Plant Seizures, MS, OCMH.
23 For a more detailed study of the relationship of the ASF to Selective Service, see Albert A. Blum, Deferment Problems and Policies of the War Department, MS, Columbia University, 1953.
24 The material in this section has been condensed from Purchasing Policies and Practices, prepared by Purchases Division, ASF, pp. 194-227.
25 EO 8734, 11 Apr 41
26 Memo, Patterson and Forrestal for Henderson, 23 Jul 42, sub: Maximum Price Regulation of Military Equip, Purchases Div, ASE
27 EO 8632, 11 Jan 41.
28 EO 9070, 24 Feb 42.
29 EO 8890, 3 Sep 41.
30 EO 9326, 7 Apr 43.
31 EO 9347, 27 May 43.
32 Public Law 458, 78th Cong, 1st Sess, approved 3 Oct 44.
33 Industrial Mobilization for War, p. 863.