Priorities and defense [electronic resource]: a handbook on the operation of the priorities system / prepared by the Information Division, Office for Emergency Management, Wasington, D.C.

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Title	Priorities and defense [electronic resource]: a handbook on the operation of the priorities system / prepared by the Information Division, Office for Emergency Management, Wasington, D.C.
Item Number	p0061
Creator (Corporate)	United States. Office of Production Management.
Government Publisher	Division of Priorities, Office of Production Management; U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1941
Physical Description	v, 69 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Notes	April 1941--t.p.; E. R. Stettinius is the Director of Priorities. Assistant Directors are James F. Towers and Blackwell Smith. Philip D. Reed is the division consultant. For administrative purposes, the Division of Priorities is divided in five groups. These are: Minerals and Metals Group: Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, chairman. Chemicals Group: Dr. H. E. Howe, chairman. Commercial Aircraft Group: Arthur D. Whiteside, chairman. tools and Equipment Group: Dr. Dexter S. Kimball, chairman. General Products Group: Dr. W. E. Wickenden, chairman. The office of the Division of Priorities are located in the new Social Security Building, Washington, D. C.--iv.
Table of Contents	What are priorities? -- Questions and answers -- Priorities critical list -- Priorities instructions (official instructions for the War and Navy Departments to their representatives) -- Preference rating certificates and forms -- President's latter on liquidated damages -- War Department instructions on liquidated damages -- Navy Department instructions on liquidated damages -- Creation of the Office of Productions Management (Executive Order of the President) -- O. P. M. Regulation No. 3 (related to status of Priorities Division) -- Priorities Duties and Functions (Division Administrative Order No. 1).
Summary	The priorities system, in fundamental theory, is very simple. Put as briefly as possible, it is a method of putting first things first, a technique for making sure that machines and wheels and gears and guns and radios and thermometers and range finders -- and all the other things needed for national defense -- are produced promptly, on schedule, without delay. Primarily this system is designed to implement the production and acquisition of defense material which goes to the armed forces, the Army and the Navy. Such aid is given by priority action, which may take a number of different forms, requiring certain manufacturers or producers to give preferential treatment to specified defense orders or contracts. When a manufacturer has an order which has been given a preference rating, by means of priority certificate or some other action, he is required to make every effort to fill this order on the stipulated delivery date. If this means delaying other orders, with lower preference ratings or no preference ratings at all, then the delay must be made. But, of course, it should not involve the delay of other orders which hold equal or higher ratings... A producer who is working on a number of rated contracts must handle these contracts in the order of their importance, just as a busy man with a number of different things to do will make sure that he does the most important things before turning his attention to less pressing matters.--p. 1.
Corporate Names	United States.--Army--Procurement. United States.--Navy--Procurement.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States. Industrial priorities--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Production management--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc. World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies--Government policy--United States. Penalties, Contractual--United States. Defense industries--United States. Administrative agencies--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Law and legislation--United States.
Gov Doc Classification	PR 32.4006:P 93
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	p0061.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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