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Investigation of the national defense program : Hearings before a Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, United States Senate, Seventy-Seventh Congress, first session--Eightieth Congress, first session. S. Res. 71

Part 21, Jan. 5, 7, and 10 hearings were held in Miami Beach, Fla. Focuses on comparison of cotton and rayon cord use in tire manufacturing, war plant efficiency problems and demobilization plans, and Army Miami Beach hotels lease arrangements
Print Book, English, 1941-1948
United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1941-1948
Legislative hearings
43 volumes (26,189 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
3823926
pt. 1. Progress of national defense program, Apr. 15-17, 21-25, 1941
pt. 2. Soft coal strike, Camp construction at Fort George C. Meade, Location of Seventh Corps area training center, Apr. 28-30, May 5-8, 1941
pt. 3. Aluminum, May 12, 14, 15, June 16, 17, 1941
pt. 4. Construction at Camp Blanding Florida, West Coast shipbuilding strike, May 20, 21, 23, 27-28, 1941
pt. 5. Functions of the O.P.M., emergency shipbuilding program, June 3-5, 10, 12, July 9, 1941
pt. 6. War Department's accomplishments in fy 1940, emergency ship construction, Small business in the defense program, Army and Navy rental of equipment, Defense problems in California, July 15-17, 22, 23, 29-31, Aug. 5, 19, 21, 22, 1941
pt. 7. Defense contracts, Camp construction, Defense problems in northwest, Aluminum, Aug. 6, 7, 12, 13, 25, 26, Sept. 12, 15, 1941
pt. 8. Defense housing, Defense contracts, Aluminum, Oct. 3, 7-9, 14, 15, 21-24, 27-29, 31, 1941
pt. 9. Ordnance plant construction: Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant and Milan Ordnance Depot, Milan, Tenn., Nov. 17, 18, 26-28, Dec. 1, 2, 1941
pt. 10. Labor in defense program, U.S. Army recreational facilities and activities, Nonferrous metals, Lobbying, Dollar-a-year men, Contract review branch, W.P.B., Dec. 4, 5, 11, 12, 16-18, 1941, Jan. 28, Feb. 12, 1942
pt. 11. Rubber, Mar. 5, 24, 26, 27, 31, Apr. 1-3, 7, 1942
pt. 12. Conversion program-War Production Board, Engineer's Group, Inc., Maritime Commission shipbuilding projects, Domestic transportation problems, Procurement and purchase section, War Production Board, Defense housing-Willow Run project, Apr. 14-16, 21-23, June 25, July 22, 1942
pt. 13. Light metals, Defense problems in California, Basic Magnesium, Inc., Mar. 9, 10, 13-15, 23, 24, 1942
pt. 14. Iron and steel, July 28-30, Aug. 6, 7, 11, 1942
pt. 15. South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, Winfield Park defense housing project, Lumber, Nov. 18, 19, 23-25, 1942
pt. 16. Gasoline rationing and fuel oil situation, War Department program for procurement and production of munitions, Nov. 27, 30, Dec. 1, 2, 5, 9, 16, 1942
pt. 17. Farm machinery and equipment, Concrete barges, Army commissions and military activities of motion picture personnel, Pipe line transportation, Absenteeism in defense industry, Jan. 14, 19, Feb. 5, 16, 17, Mar. 3, 8, 9, Apr. 3, 1943
pt. 18. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Labor, Mar. 22-26, Apr. 2, 1943
pt. 19. Army food studies, Conflicting war production programs, Mica, Apr. 5, 14, 27, 28, May 3, 4, June 23, 24, 1943
pt. 20. Site for northwest metallurgical laboratory, Machine tools and dies industry, Sunflower ordnance plant, Industrial sugar rationing, Basic Magnesium, Inc., Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Apr. 24, May 20, 21, June 8-10, Aug. 19, 20, 1943
pt. 21. Rayon versus cotton cord for tires, Manpower, Reconversion program, Army hotel acquisition program, Sept. 22, Oct. 28, Nov. 19, 24, Dec. 3, 1943, Jan. 5, 7, 10, 1944 pt. 22. The canol project, Sept. 11, Oct. 26, Nov. 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 22-24, Dec. 20, 1943
pt. 23. Merchant shipping, Jan. 12, Mar. 2, 8, 27, 28, 30, Apr. 3, 1944
pt. 24. Magnesium, Paper, Corrigan, Osburne, and Wells, Reconversion, Mar. 6, May 22-26, June 19, 1944
pt. 25. Reconversion, Disposal of surplus property, Aug. 16-18, 21-25, 28, 1944
pt. 26. Disposal of surplus property, Manpower, Reconversion, Army inventory control, Worldwide Mercantile Corporation, Progress in war production, Cigarette shortage, Sept. 8, 16, 21, Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 1, 4, 7, 8, 12-15, 1944
pt. 27. Textile industry-Manpower and production, Disposal of surplus property-Surplus Liquidators, Inc., Jan. 19, 31, Feb. 1, 2, 6-8, 14, 1945
pt. 28. Manpower problems in Detroit, Mar. 9, 10, 12, 13, 1945
pt. 29 Carbon black, May 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, June 11, 1945
pt. 30. Inspection at Curtiss-Wright Corporation Buffalo, N.Y. plants, July 10-13, 1945
pt. 31. Reconversion, Redeployment transportation, Coal, Aviation and light metals industries, July 18, 23, 24, 27, 31, Aug. 16, 18, 21-24, 1945
pt. 32. Tin shortage, Disposal of surplus property (Municipalities-Small Business-Veterans), Irregularities in Fourteenth Naval district, Merchant shipping-Pacific, Sept. 21, 24, Oct. 4, 10, 11, 22, 23, 25, Nov. 6, 28, Dec. 12, 14, 21, 1945
pt. 33. Idle shipping in Pacific area, Disposal of surplus property, United Kingdom loan, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Irregularities-Pearl Harbor and San Juan Naval bases, Jan. 24, 29, Feb. 11-14, 22, 25, 27, Mar. 4, 5, Apr. 19, 23, 24, May 1, 9, 10, 14, 15, 24, 31, June 3, 1946
pt. 34. War contracts-Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc., July 1-3, 5, 6, 8-10, 1946
35. War contracts-Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc., State of Washington, July 11, 12, 15-17, 19, 23, 25, 26, 29-31, 1946
pt. 36. Surplus property abroad, Dec. 27, 29-31, 1945, Jan. 1, 2, 6-10, 12-14, 16, 19, 21, 23-26, 28, 30, 1946
pt. 37. Inter-American highway, July 13, 17, 26, 1945, Aug. 24, 29-31, Sept. 3, 4, 27, 28, 1946, Mar. 31, 1947
pt. 38. Transactions between Senator Theodore G. Bilbo and various war contractors, Dec. 12-14, 16-19, 1946
pt. 39. Return of overseas surpluses, Maintenance of Naval establishments, Canol Project, Emergency housing program, (Disposal of surplus plants), Renegotiation of war contracts, Sept. 5-7, 9, 26, 27, 30, Nov. 20-22, 25, 1946, Jan. 31, 1947
pt. 40. Aircraft contracts (Hughes Aircraft Co. and Kaiser-Hughes Corp.), July 28-31, Aug. 1, 2, 4-9, 11, 1947
pt. 41. Petroleum arrangement with Saudi Arabia, Institutional advertising, Mar. 28, 29, May 8, Oct. 29-31, Nov. 1, 3, 4, 1947, Jan. 24, 29, 30, 1948
pt. 42. Renegotiation of war contracts, Industrial mobilization plan, Military government in Germany, Apr. 5, Aug. 14, Sept. 26, Nov. 18, 1946, Oct. 21-24, 1947
pt. 43. Aircraft contracts-Hughes Aircraft Co., Aircraft procurement-activities of Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, Nov. 5-8, 10-15, 17-22, 1947
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Hearings held from Apr. 15, 1941 to Jan. 30, 1948
Part 13, Mar. 9 and 10 hearings were held in Spokane, Wash.; Mar. 13 and 14 hearings were held in San Francisco, Calif.; Mar. 15 hearing was held in Salinas, Calif.; Mar. 23 and 24 hearings were held in Las Vegas, Nev
Part 20, Apr. 24 hearing was held in Spokane, Wash.; May 20 and 21 hearings were held in Detroit, Mich.; June 8, 9, and 10 hearings were held in Kansas City, Mo.; Aug. 19 hearing was held in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Aug. 20 hearing was held in Cincinnati, Ohio
Part 23, Mar. 27-28 hearings were held in Seattle, Wash.; Mar. 30 hearing was held in San Francisco, Calif.; and Apr. 3 hearing was held in Los Angeles, Calif
Part 39, Sept. 5 hearings were held in Port Hueneme, Calif. and Lathrop, Calif.; Sept. 6 hearing was held in San Francisco, Calif.; Sept. 7 hearings were held in Seattle, Wash., Auburn, Wash., and Tacoma, Wash.; and Sept. 9 hearing was held in Vancouver, Wash