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Identifier: asyouwere00bang (find matches)
Title: "As you were,"
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: (Bangs, John Kendrick) 1888- ed (Bangs, John Kendrick), 1862-1922, ed
Subjects: United States. War dept. Purchase, storage and traffic division. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the request of the Government, you came to Washington in Febru-ary, 1918, and established the Hardware and Metals Branch of theSupply and Equipment Division. On June 1, 1918, the Hardware andMetals Branch became the Hardware and Metals Division. On July 1,1918, the program of coordinated purchasing became effective, and onNovember 1, 1918, the name of the Hardware and Metals Divisionwas changed to the General Supplies Division. Between the time that you came to Washington and the signing of thearmistice on November nth, approximately nine months had elapsed.During that time, the personnel of the General Supplies Division hadincreased from yourself alone to 535 persons. The number of desks andtables required was approximately 600, and the number of typewritersused was about 400. In considerably less than nine months time, you handled the re-sponsibility of purchasing the general supplies for the entire Army. Iknow that I voice the sentiment of the Division as a whole, and particu- 192
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• The Round Robin 193 larly the sentiment of Lieutenant Colonel Hill, Mr. Welles, Major Darrand Major Richards, and all of the men who have been connected withlarge concerns, when I say to you in behalf of the Division and in behalfof the hardware manufacturers and jobbers of this country, that youcreated under the most trying and abnormal conditions an organizationfor purchasing hardware and general supplies which possessed more effi-ciency and produced greater results in nine months than had been at-tained by the largest firms of this country in former normal peace times.This was a wonderful achievement. We know that at the time of the signing of the armistice you had per-formed a task more gigantic than the one previously mentioned, in that,with the cooperation of Mr. Murray Sargent and other members of theWar Industries Board, you accomplished an incomprehensible feat—incomprehensible to anyone not directly associated with you as yourchiefs have been—for through your ability

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