Petroleum in War and Peace: Papers Presented by the Petroleum Administration for War Before the United States Senate, Special Committee to Investigate Petroleum Resources1945 - Petroleum industry and trade - 294 pages |
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Page 196 - The reorganization plans submitted were Plans 7 through 13 of 1950, relating, respectively, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Labor Relations Board and the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Page 154 - ... persons during the period that this section is in effect, in compliance with any request or approval made by the Chairman in writing, is requisite to the prosecution of the war, such act, thing or omission shall be deemed in the public interest and no prosecution or civil action shall be commenced with reference thereto under the antitrust laws of the United States or the Federal Trade Commission Act.
Page 202 - It is a very special tribute, therefore, that at no time did the services lack for oil in the proper quantities, in the proper kinds and at the proper places. Because of the resourcefulness, untiring and unceasing efforts, and outstanding accomplishments of the Petroleum Administration for War and the petroleum industry, not a single operation was delayed or impeded because of a lack of petroleum products. No Government agency and no branch of American industry achieved a prouder war record.
Page 154 - I hereby find and so certify to you that the doing of any act or thing, or the omission to do any act or thing, by any person in compliance with my approval herein expressed, is requisite to the prosecution of the war.
Page 209 - This short-sighted policy failed under the crucial test of war. We were under the necessity to ignore it and adopt the concept of one national oil barrel to fight the war, run the war plants, and sustain the civilian economy until we achieved victory.
Page 29 - Is the development and utilization with maximum efficiency of our petroleum resources and our facilities, present and future, for making petroleum and petroleum products available, adequately and continuously, in the proper forms, at the proper places, and at reasonable prices to meet military and civilian needs.
Page 65 - ... the United States and which lasted for only about a year and a half, fortunately was not long enough to cause a drastic depletion of reserves which probably would have occurred if the war had continued. The war had a greater and more significant effect on the rate of production than on reserves — an effect which was not felt fully until the forces of the Army and Navy became extensively deployed. Even with domestic civilian consumption drastically curtailed, production had to be increased by...
Page 200 - ... can do the job. There are some things, moreover, that cannot be coerced. How could we, for example, have coerced the industry to pool its ideas on 100-octane manufacture? How could we have forced a man to contribute an idea we couldn't even know he had? Yet without coercion, every fact, every idea, every theory, even every half-formulated hypothesis was thrown into a common pool from which all might draw. "Throughout the war the industry accomplished as a partner what it could never have achieved...
Page 61 - For the Nation to be ready to meet a war emergency it must have a large reserve of productive capacity and fortunately, in the first quarter of 1941, prior to the entrance of the United States into World War II, the United States had an efficient productive capacity of 4,760,000 barrels.
Page 200 - ... in some cases two. The desired results were obtained, thanks to the understanding and cooperation of the other agencies, but much precious time was lost in education, argument, and appeal — time that could better have been devoted to the job to be done. * * * In another war, we may not have much time to lose. The oil agency should start with an adequate grant of authority, and an unmistakable delineation of its field.