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War Plants Prioritized in National Manpower Plan
A national manpower program prioritizes defense plants at 1,800 federal state offices. Goodwin says labor force could grow by 5.6 million in a war emergency to support 30.6 billion dollar defense spending and 3 million in arms. Tobin plots mobilization policy while draft director Hershey holds separate authority.
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Robert C. Goodwin
Unem
Goodwin
Labor Department
Maurice Tobin
Truman
Lewis B. Hershey
Tobin