JOINT COMMITTEE ON DEFENSE PRODUCTION PAUL BROWN, Georgia, Chairman HOMER E. CAPEHART, Indiana, Vice Chairman A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, Virginia WRIGHT PATMAN, Texas GORDON L. MCDONOUGH, California EDGAR W. HIESTAND, California HAROLD J. WARREN, Clerk and Counsel GEORGE T. AULT, Professional Staff Problems relating to high-temperature materials. Provision for special-property materials. Defense Production Act expansion programs and related programs. Total Government inventories_ Defense Production Act inventory. Status of Defense Production Act borrowing authority. Estimated future cash requirements... National stockpile. Domestic Minerals Program Extension Act. Barter program for strategic materials_. Supplemental stockpile... Surplus disposal policy. Conservation of helium for production and other purposes. Cuban nickel production Government-owned Nicaro plant... Freeport Nickel Co.-Moa Bay project.. Domestic nickel contract__ Copper Minerals exploration_. Small business. Machine tools___ Machine tool programs.. Machine tool inventories. Disposal of excess inventory. Obsolescence effect on mobilization base___. Tool replacement and modernization program_ School donation program Page 1 7 16 17 19 19 21 24 26 29 33 36 38 39 41 48 48 50 52 55 57 59 60 60 61 62 63 63 64 65 65 66 67 68 70 109 271 273 277 340 164 210 280 282 291 293 Activities of departments and agencies having functions under the Defense Production Act.. Agriculture Department. Air Coordinating Committee.. Atomic Energy Commission. Civil Aeronautics Board.. Civil Service Commission.. Commerce Department.. Defense Department.. Export-Import Bank.. Federal Aviation Agency Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Federal Reserve System.- Activities of departments and agencies having functions under the Defense General Services Administration_. Health, Education, and Welfare Department_ Housing and Home Finance Agency-. Interior Department- Interstate Commerce Commission Labor Department_-_. National Aeronautics and Space Administration_. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization__ Small Business Administration_. List of executive orders____ Defense Production Act, as amended.. Page 301 222 312 231 314 263 316 71 317 343 345 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL The Honorable the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. The Honorable the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. In accordance with section 712(b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, which provides for a report to the Senate and House of Representatives from time to time concerning the results of studies of this committee, together with such recommendations as it may deem desirable, there is transmitted herewith the 10th Annual Report of the Joint Committee on Defense Production. The appendix of the report contains summaries from various departments and agencies performing functions under authority of the Defense Production Act to September 1960. Respectfully submitted. PAUL BROWN, Chairman. HOMER E. CAPEHART, Vice Chairman. |