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Emergency use of manpower

JAN 01, 1951
A proposal

Some months ago, the National Security Resources Board asked that the American Chemical Society, the National Research Council, the Engineers’ Joint Council, and the American Institute of Physics consider ways in which the skills and training of scientists and engineers might best be used in the event of large‐scale mobilization. The NSRB, which has been given the responsibility for developing a realistic and effective manpower program in the national emergency, asked in particular that recommendations be made concerning a proposal that such men be reserved from military duty subject only to induction on the basis of military requirements for the specific requisitions in question.

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Henry A. Barton. American Institute of Physics.

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Volume 4, Number 1

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