[PDF] Government War Contracts eBook

Author : J. Franklin (John Franklin) Crowell
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Defense contracts
ISBN : 9781290858588

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Author : J. Franklin Crowell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781528264211

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Excerpt from Government War Contracts Three points stand out prominently in the procedure described under the name of war contracts. The first is that the established system of doing business in the War and Navy Departments broke down early in the war. The second is that the civilians, expert and inexpert, who attempted to carry on business which properly belonged to the departments, where they succeeded at all in doing better than the depart ments themselves, did so usually by violation of the law the very law which, in large measure, prevented the depart ments from doing as well as the civilians did. The third is that it was found necessary to replace a bureaucratic order with the more elastic and freer methods of private business. The history of war contracts shows clearly that there were many men in the War and Navy Departments who were entirely competent to foresee the needs of the country in the crisis and to prepare plans adequate to meet them. They were prevented, however, from doing this by the laws or administrative regulations defining the scope of their author ity. Therefore, as is usual at a time of heated public Opinion, they were accused of incompetence because they did not get results which they were unable to get only because this very public had insisted on tying them hand and foot. This is a commonplace of governmental administration to which pub lic attention needs to be called again and again. 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.

Author : John Franklin Crowell
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
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ISBN : 9781359057471

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